Book Reviews

The book encompasses a memoir, Sindhi proverbs as well as a translation

What do night trains offer that day trains and planes can’t?

The author follows the Chenab, right from its birthplace in the upper Himalayas to its final embrace with the Arabian Sea

The book is a primer on the importance of military ethics in career choices

What happens when Avinash, a young Dalit boy growing up in a tin-roofed slum, comes to know of the centuries of oppression his ilk has faced?

Namita Devidayal’s ‘Tangerine’ is an introspective memoir

‘Bandaged Moments’ by Nabanita Sengupta & Nishi Pulugurtha is a collection of short stories by Indian women writers on mental health it is not a gentle offering. It is a tear in the fabric of our social pretence

‘Why Savagery at Jallianwala Bagh Amritsar (1919)?’ by Jagdish Chander Joshi is a meticulous excavation of this tragedy and its meanings

‘The Dark Hours of the Night’, a new English translation of Tamil poet and novelist Salma’s acclaimed debut ‘Irandaam Jaamangalin Kathai’, tells why there is no such thing as a small story

The author writes that caste is not merely India’s parochial wound but an evolving structure that travelled and survived across the world

Colonel Arup Ratan Basu’s humane and compassionate book, “The Kargil War Surgeon’s Testimony” looks at war, not through the eyes of one trained to take lives but one saving them

‘Mother Mary Comes To Me’ is a powerful work that recounts with astonishing clarity the impact a parent, especially a mother, can have on a child

The 1,000-page book has the leisure to cast light on all aspects of Panikkar’s life

The backdrop of these stories is the pre-reforms era

The book highlights the destructive dimension of modern life most comprehensively and admirably

The book shows that the true story of belonging can only be written in conversation with ghosts, not nation-states

The book risks portraying Benjamin as an innocuous ‘man of letters’

This book is a reminder that the Himalayas are not only geography but also philosophy, and that a pilgrimage is meaningful not because it is easy but because it is transformative

The book reveals to us the myriad ways in which women have dealt with unequal situations

Can we record their stories as easily as we drape their saris or wear their jewellery? Madhu Bhaduri’s book seeks answers

Women characters contribute to the book’s exploration of gender and power

Each poem in the collection is reflective of his aesthetic sensibilities, evocative of changing moods and sometimes, just describing ordinary people going about their ordinary work