Book Reviews

This anthology by Air Vice Marshal Anil Golani (Retd) spans nearly five decades of writing

Roopinder Singh’s ‘Gurdwaras: Abodes of the Guru’ illustrates how the Sikh community’s spiritual DNA remains identical worldwide

Brightly illustrated by Shamika Chaves, the book is Ruskin Bond’s invitation to all readers to join him on a crazy, fun ride through a book that is funny and witty

‘Gangrene — Punjabi Dalit Short Stories’ is a ready compendium to understand the psyche of both Punjabi Dalits and their oppressors

In their book 'A World of Resistance: India and the Global Antibiotic Crisis', Assa Doron & Alex Broom state that antimicrobial resistance is fundamentally a systemic problem, embedded within our social, economic and political systems

In ‘Shakti — Tales of Power and Promise’, author Ritu Sharma travels across sacred spaces and Shakti Peeths, documenting the traditions that shape out cultural and spiritual fabric

The book presents a gendered view of women’s livelihoods in Uttarakhand and the myriad challenges confronting them

The novel is a meditation on marriage, migration, masculinity and the making of modern India

The book exposes the economics and politics of immigration

The book traces the tribals’ struggles against colonial control and economic exploitation across central and western India

Tinker Bell was on good terms with everyone; it only butted strangers who bowed too low!

The book gives a peek into a well-curated time capsule of events since India’s Independence, with special emphasis on the 1980s

As a diatribe against the excesses of political Hindutva, the book lacks intellectual robustness, and as an exposition on Hinduism, it is incomplete and shallow

This collection of short stories resists the conformist expectations of the form

The author provides an insider’s perspective of why and how ASEAN should be wooed

The book, translated from Marathi by Shanta Gokhale, turns the relocation of family deities into a moving reflection on migration, memory and change

The writer has comprehensively covered the policy choices and the areas that require reform

What binds ‘Measure of My Days’ and ‘Tender Tales of Life’s Lanes’ is the writer’s deep empathy and attentiveness to human experience

There are no dramatic villains in this book, no cinematic twists designed for binge culture

Once scandalous, Peero’s words feel powerful today

The book asks what have cities become after three decades of liberalisation — for us as well as for the workers, the street vendors, the homeless, excluded from gated enclaves?

The essays are wide-ranging — Partition and aftermath; politics, religion, race, caste, and gender; literature and art; political economy of development; and issues confronting the diaspora