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Dream about me: Review of Kazuo Ishiguro’s ‘Klara and the Sun’

Jaideep Unudurti In this centenary year of the invention of the term ‘robot,’ Kazuo Ishiguro presents in his latest novel an Artificial Friend, created to provide companionship to a possible race of forsaken humans

Hopeless in hovels: Janhavi Acharekar reviews Lindsay Pereira’s ‘Gods and Ends’

Janhavi Acharekar With an insider’s familiarity, Lindsay Pereira presents brutally honest vignettes of Mumbai’s Roman Catholic community

Toil A Chinese tea plantation with workers carrying and firing the tea. Engraving by A. Willmore, c. 1840. Wiki Commons

Reviews of ‘Beyond Pan-Asianism: Connecting China and India, 1840s-1960s’, and ‘Tea-War: A History of Capitalism in China and India’: India’s forgotten China links

Ananth Krishnan With research and anecdotes, two books steer clear of a reductive framing of relations between old neighbours and embrace the complexities

travel ‘Buddha in Gandhara’ review: Journeys on the Silk Road

A writer travels through erstwhile Buddhist domains looking for Indian philosophical influences

‘A Pandemic and the Politics of Life’ review: A raging virus and its impact on the marginalised

Why logistical steps to fight COVID-19 must be accompanied by the state taking responsibility for migrant workers and the poor

The begum and her beast: Anil Menon reviews ‘The Begum and the Dastan’ by Tarana Husain Khan

Anil Menon Cavils apart, this is an immersive novel, remarkable for the thoroughly Muslim world it creates

In search of certainties: Review of ‘The Town Slowly Empties: On Life and Culture during Lockdown’ by Manash Firaq Bhattacharjee

Sreejith Sugunan A compelling examination of the self and the nation under lockdown

Despair: A drought-affected farm in Nashik in 2018.

By the sweat of their brows: Sudipta Datta reviews ‘The Sickle’ by Anita Agnihotri, trs Arunava Sinha

Sudipta Datta Delving into social evils, Anita Agnihotri peels them off, layer by layer

focus ‘B.R. Ambedkar: The Quest for Justice’ review: Scholar of global relevance

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society ‘India and the Pandemic: The First Year’ review: A deadly pathogen and the difficult path to recovery

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Musings on the mirage city: Review of ‘The Kolkata Cadence’

Leather Bound Books

Burning hearts: ‘The True History of the Conquest of New Spain’ by Bernal Díaz del Castillo

Book of the film Books

Then a hero comes along: Review of Devashish Makhija’s ‘Oonga’

Epic Retold Books

Faithful to a fault: Aditya Sudarshan reviews Keerthik Sasidharan’s ‘The Dharma Forest’

Navin’s Peichi explores various facets of Malaysian Tamil life

‘Joe Biden: American Dreamer’ review: The story of two Joe Bidens

‘Despite the State’ review: A developmental cul-de-sac in a functioning democracy

Reporting from six States with varying histories, economics and civil structures, a journalist finds each struggling to deliver health, education and justice to its people

‘A Ringside Seat to History’ review: Mission of a career diplomat

Assignments need imagination and hard work, not champagne and caviar, as Ambassador Nazareth shows

The call of one’s roots: Review of Prema Srinivasan’s ‘And Finally, A Blessing!’

An ancient family curse, dark forebodings, and a resolute girl on a mission

Etched in memory: Review of Anoushka Khan’s ‘Still Life’

More a work of art than a piece of literature

‘The Chipko Movement: A People’s History’ review: When nature speaks out

Remembering the people who contributed to the extraordinary Chipko movement and why the battle to protect forests and mountains is far from over

‘Being Sheela: The Life Journey of an Immigration Lawyer’ review: At the forefront of the good fight for immigrants

A biography of the successful lawyer Sheela Murthy also provides a peek into the lives of those caught in America’s complex policies

The ‘Other’ Shangri-La review: Magic mountains

A journey through ‘new’ Tibet, a place of incredible beauty, also considers myths, legends and ties with China

The horror of it all: Review of Nikhil Pradhan’s ‘Yesterday’s Ghosts’

In his eagerness to make the story cool, Nikhil Pradhan ends up making it formulaic

The overwhelming question: Review of Ameya Prabhu’s ‘The Rock Babas and Other Stories’

An impressive feat of research and background reading

Clearing the fog: Review of Daribha Lyndem’s ‘Name Place Animal Thing’

A rare peek into life in Shillong from the p.o.v. of a Khasi girl

Woman, foregrounded: Vaishna Roy reviews Salma’s ‘Women, Dreaming’, translated by Meena Kandasamy

Tamil poet-writer-politician Salma’s hard-won personal victories give her voice universal resonance and a unique, reified timbre

‘The Story of China – A Portrait of a Civilisation and Its People’ review: Tracking the China of yesterday, today and tomorrow

Michael Wood takes in the sweep of history of one of the world’s oldest civilisations from the Shangs to the new order of Xi Jinping

‘The Age of Pandemics’ review: Lessons for a pandemic

A writer explores what disease outbreaks of the past have taught the world and, particularly, India

‘The Book of Indian Essays’ review: Inside the club compound

A look at the organising principles and the writers chosen by Arvind Krishna Mehrotra for an anthology of Indian essays in English that covers over 200 years

The man, the country, the community: Deepa Ganesh reviews U.R. Ananthamurthy’s ‘Avasthe’, translated by Narayan Hegde

A classic from URA, hobbled by a clumsy translation

The unaccommodated man: Review of Manoranjan Byapari’s ‘The Runaway Boy’

Manoranjan Byapari asks the simplest but toughest questions through his boy protagonist in the first part of this scathing, semi-autobiographical trilogy

‘Indian Icon: A Cult called Royal Enfield’ review: Journeys with the Bullet

A fan and a journalist tracks Royal Enfield’s origins, slump and eventual revival

‘Kamala’s Way’ review: Madam Vice-President’s story

A deep reading of Kamala Harris and her politics, including the views on gun control and education, sheds light on what she is likely to do in the White House

‘The Lost Homestead: My Mother, Partition and the Punjab’ review: The shadow cast by Partition and the trauma of displacement

Marina Wheeler traces her maternal family’s journey through the tragedy of 1947 and comes to terms with her own past

‘Indian Economy’s Greatest Crisis’ review: Economic costs of COVID-19

Arun Kumar on the losses caused by the pandemic for India and its poor

‘Archaeology and the Public Purpose: Writings on and by M.N. Deshpande’ review: A tryst with ‘trowel and spade’

Post-Independence, M.N. Deshpande and other archaeologists like him, inspired by Gandhi, explored, excavated, conserved and showcased the heritage of a new nation state

‘The Force of Nonviolence’ review: The ethics of nonviolence in political resistance

A brilliant philosophical analysis is marred by theories limited to the imagination, failing to link a radical politics to reality

Review of Anushka Jasraj’s ‘Principles of Prediction’

In Anushka Jasraj’s debut collection of short stories, the bizarre is the ordinary

‘Beyond Possible: One Soldier, Fourteen Peaks - My Life in the Death Zone’ review: No shortcuts to the top

Tracing a mountaineer’s record-breaking conquest of 14 of the world’s highest peaks

‘IPR Bride & Competition Groom’ review: Intellectual property rights vs. competition law

A writer argues that IPR bestows market power but competition law ensures that such power is exercised within limits

‘Jinnah: His Successes, Failures and Role in History’ review: Setting the record straight

In a comprehensive biography, Ishtiaq Ahmed eliminates major misconceptions about Jinnah, who is acclaimed for creating a state and demonised for dividing a country

All the lives we never lived: Tabish Khair reviews Jenny Bhatt’s ‘Each of Us Killers’

An accomplished collection of stories informed by a sense of community, its possibilities and failures

The final countdown in slo mo: Anil Menon reviews Rumaan Alam’s ‘Leave the World Behind’

An apocalyptic novel where the apocalypse happens mostly offstage

‘America in the World: A History of U.S. Diplomacy and Foreign Policy’ review: America’s role in the world

Republican insider Robert Zoellick underlines five themes that underpinned U.S. diplomacy in the past and will guide it in future, from stable alliances to innovation and trade

‘Azim Premji: The Man Beyond the Billions’ review: The making of an entrepreneur and a philanthropist

How Azim Premji expanded his business from vegetable oils to info-tech and put his money where his heart is

‘The Other Side of the Divide’ review: Across the great divide

A journalist visits Lahore and comes away with heartwarming tales of shared culture and history

The kitchen’s calling: Rahul Verma reviews ‘Desi Delicacies: Food Writing from Muslim South Asia’

A mouth-watering collection of stories and essays, each chapter ending with a recipe

See no evil: Shuma Raha reviews Moni Mohsin’s ‘The Impeccable Integrity of Ruby R.’

Moni Mohsin’s attempt to depict the venality of politics in Pakistan and a young girl’s hopes of being part of the change stumbles from the word go

‘If Then’ review: The not-so-subtle art of creating data Frankensteins

With the help of research, Jill Lepore profiles Simulmatics Corporation and its manipulative ways which continue to haunt the globe

‘Brand New Nation’ review: Illusion of a makeover

The populist nature of India’s new image building, driven by necessary infusion of global capital, has led to a plural society becoming polarised, argues Ravinder Kaur

‘Himalayan Challenge: India, China and the Quest for Peace’ review: The search for a new modus vivendi with China

Subramanian Swamy makes a case for reassessing India’s relationship with China

Shades of the macabre: Review of Vault Comics’ ‘The Picture of Everything Else’

A compelling graphic novel set in the bloody, artsy, decadent 1890s, with stunning illustrations to match

Series of thumbnails: Latha Anantharaman reviews ‘The Banyan and Her Roots’

A collection of South Asian voices that leaves nothing much to write home about

‘Service Uninterrupted: Memoirs of M.M. Rajendran’ review: Stories from the steel frame

An IAS officer who went on to become Governor recalls his days in service

‘My Years with Rajiv’ review: Working with Rajiv Gandhi

A bureaucrat recalls the experience of being in the PMO under a school friend who became Prime Minister, touching on every subject from Bofors to Babri

‘Azadi: Freedom. Fascism. Fiction’ review: An incomplete critique of present-day turbulence

Arundhati Roy is at her best in the essays that have been written through the eyes of a novelist, and not those of a political commentator

‘The Spy Who Came in from the Cold’ by John le Carré

From the day his third novel, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, was published in 1963, John le Carré realised that he was to be branded “the spy

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