Book Reviews

The author writes how Tagore’s lifelong experiment with education was the cornerstone of his ideals of non-parochial nationalism and an instinctive cosmopolitanism

The book is a biographical account of the men who governed the East India Company and ruled India during the 18th-19th centuries

The book carries a distinct charm and depth of feeling

The book attempts to restore the lost glory and identity of the Kashmiri Sikh community

The book is a compilation of his speeches in Parliament and on other forums, as well as his writings

This book analyses the rising power of the woman voter

The book is a piercing reflection on faith: its power to redeem, to devastate and to endure

The author draws from her own experience of covering Hindustani music as a journalist, and takes up various subjects governing the genre

The authors write how publics from all ranks of society immersed themselves in Constitution-making

In this extract, author Megha Vishwanath narrates how Deepi met Albinder Dhindsa, the future founder and CEO of Blinkit

The book is a resistant cry against the very gaze of journalism, which often puppets the social orthodoxy and perversion of the majority

This is an English translation of ‘Qayas’, his only novel published hitherto

His attempt to straddle the generational divide — Millennials vs Gen Z — is ambitious

This ambitious book by Divya Guptaconstructs the world of soldiers with the help of letters written or dictated by these soldiers in different languages — Hindustani, Punjabi, Urdu, Bengali, Malayalam and Tamil, among others

The book is set within the time-frame of April to July 2021, when most parts of India were in the vicious grip of Covid-19’s Delta wave, unleashing hell and fury

This book is an account of the alterations to the concept of citizenship and belonging that began with the records of the Madras High Court

The book is not merely a recollection of travel memories but a work of poetry in the true Wordsworthian sense of the word

The book offers a generous sprinkling of information, lived experiences, mythology and a stellar cast of performers

Kanika Singh’s book examines how the modern tradition of realist painting shaped Sikh perceptions of their own past