Dalit Kitchens of Marathwada
Shahu Patole, translated from the Marathi by Bhushan Korgaonkar
Harper Collins
Rs.599 Pages 354
This book endorses verity of the maxim that ‘food is the utlimate reality’. But its importance is that it reveals the connection between cuisine and the hierarchial caste system.
The recent English translation by Bhushan Korgaonkar of Marathi […]
In this well-argued compendium, the author presents his four pillars plan to attain the 2047 Viksit Bharat and $30 trillion GDP plus goals
It’s surprising that this seminal growth and development ideas-packed book authored by Krishnamurthy Subramanian, former Chief Economic Advisor (2018-21) of the […]
Every child can: Riverside School’s design-led approach to empower children
Kiran Bir Sethi, Mohanram Gudipati and Apoorva Bhandari
Harper Design
Rs.599 Pages 208
Design thinking-led learning offers a user-centric model for whole school improvement
Founded by Kiran Bir Sethi in 2001 and situated on the banks of the River Sabarmati offering a direct view of […]
The Last Heroes: Foot Soldiers of Indian Freedom
P. Sainath
penguin books
Rs.499
Pages 256
A valiant attempt to tell the stories of 15 unsung freedom fighters of exceptional courage who have been almost expunged from the narrative of the freedom struggle
As India commemorates 75 years of independence, Sainath’s Last Heroes cuts to the heart […]
The Great Nicobar Betrayal
Curated by Pankaj Sekhsaria
THG PUBLISHING
Rs. 499 Pages 100
Flash floods, wildfires, cyclones, droughts, landslides and earthquakes are climate catastrophes which are Mother Nature’s reaction to relentless industrialisation in the name of development.
But is anyone heeding these warnings? Certainly not the incumbent Government of India.
Being Muslim in Hindu India: A Critical View
Zia Us Salam
Harper Collins India
Rs. 599 Pages 310
Starting with the sentence ‘To be a Muslim is to be an orphan’, several polemical essays are peppered with contentions and arguments backed by hard data
The very first sentence of the ‘Preface’ in the book under review […]
Party of One: The rise of Xi Jinping and China’s superpower future
Chun Han Wong
Simon & Schuster
Rs.2,490 Pages 416
If Chairman Mao taught China how to stand up and Secretary Deng Xiaoping how to walk, Xi’s ambition is to make it run and transform China into a superpower
Revolutionaries: the other story of how India won its freedom
Sanjeev Sanyal
Harper Collins
Rs.599 Pages 351
To counter public amnesia the author uses the methodology of micro-history to intervene into the mainstream narrative of India’s freedom struggle as it has been ‘received’ since 1947
Reading this alternative history of how India won its freedom from British […]
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi: I am an ordinary man — India’s struggle for freedom (1914-1948)
Gopalkrishna Gandhi
Aleph Book Company
Rs.999 Pages 443
The dynamic flux of political, social and economic interventions together with Gandhiji’s relationships with hundreds of people demanded energies beyond the capacity of ordinary mortals
A reviewer assessing the sequel to Gopalkrishna Gandhi’s edited ‘autobiography’ […]
The Viceroy’s Artist
Anindyo Roy
hachette india
Rs.599
Pages 284
A 19th century travelogue across India of Edward Lear, a nonsense- verse writer and sketches painter, is pieced together by academic-turned- novelist Anindyo Roy
Who is the Viceroy and who is his artist is played out over 284 pages of this historically contextualised tour de force fictionalised […]
The Indian village: Rural lives in the 21st century
Surinder S. Jodhka
Aleph Book Company
Rs.799
Pages 279
This book details the relationship between land reforms, green revolution, rising agricultural production and the emergence of marginalised people
India’s 600,000 villages represent a vast terrain, full of diversity in natural settings, social structure, cultural life, economic conditions, and […]
The commissioner of lost causes
Arun Shourie
penguin random house
Rs.619
Pages 582
An account of the author’s tumultuous years as Editor of the Indian Express under its legendary publisher Ramnath Goenka
To citizens of a certain vintage who have outlived their prescribed lifespan of threescore and ten, and who remember the era before television and social […]
Land, Guns, Caste, Woman: The Memoir of a Lapsed Revolutionary
Gita Ramaswamy
Navayana
Rs.454
Pages 432
Memoirs of Indian revolutionaries are few and far between. This book relates to revolutionary struggles in the post-independence period
Memoirs of Indian revolutionaries are few and far between. Those relating to revolutionary struggles in the post-independence period are nearly absent. In […]
Colonialism: a moral reckoning
Nigel Biggar
william collins
Rs.899
Pages 480
In an unabashed defence of British colonialism, the author has waded into familiar debates in a rather superficial manner
In attempting to defend the empire Nigel Biggar, Director and Regius Professor Emeritus of Moral & Pastoral Theology at Oxford University, has waded into several familiar debates […]
The Mahabharata quest: the Khandavaprastha conspiracy Christopher C. Doyle Westland Rs.499 391 pages
This fast-paced thriller blends mythology, science fiction and historical facts so smoothly that the reader feels this is a factual account with an air of verisimilitude
Creating fiction, poetry and drama based on the Mahabharata, Ramayana or the Puranas is a well-established tradition […]
Ambedkar: A Life Shashi Tharoor Aleph Book Company Rs.599 Pages 226
This book is about the confrontation between Gandhi and Ambedkar, a profound disagreement on the status of Dalits in free, independent India
India’s uniquely successful freedom movement in last few decades of British Raj over the subcontinent was almost entirely due to the generalship and masterful […]
India’s undeclared emergency: Constitutionalism & the Politics of Resistance Arvind Narrain Westland publications Rs.699, Pages 235
The merry month of May was significant for coronations in Britain, our erstwhile colonial master nation, and in its crown jewel, India. On May 6, King Charles III, a long-time prince in waiting, was crowned King of England and Head […]
India’s tipping point S. Narendra Bloomsbury India Rs.699 Pages 212
In this biography, the author details how prime minister Narasimha Rao unshackled the Indian economy by stealth
During the past 76 years since India wrested freedom from almost 200 years of British rule, P.V. Narasimha Rao (PVNR, 1921-2004) was undoubtedly the greatest of India’s 14 prime ministers. […]
Victory City Salman Rushdie Alfred A Knopf Rs.519 Pages 352
An engaging novel about the founding and ultimate fate of the Vijayanagar empire (called Bisnaga) after a European mispronounces it
On August 12, 2022, Salman Rushdie was due to speak at the Chautauqua Institution in New York State. Shortly after the speakers ascended the stage, a […]
The Anatomy of Hate Revati Laul Westland Books Rs.1,499 Pages 220
The author has chosen to study three individuals who swiftly meld into mobs, to understand the circumstances and motivations that make them ready tools of politicians and revivalists
In recent years, there has been an increasing tendency of enraged vigilante groups running amok, creating havoc and […]
The Digital Ape: how to live (in peace) with smart machines Nigel Shadbolt & Roger Hampson Manjul Publishing House Rs.354 Pages 90
We are reassuringly told that AI actually is poor at “commonsense reasoning”, and while they are superhuman in completing certain tasks, they are “overall bad at generalising”
I could not be Hindu: The story of a Dalit in the RSS Bhanwar Meghwanshi Navayana Publishing Rs.399 Pages 240
The author shares his experience with the RSS and the reasons why he quit this organisation, the ideological mentor of the BJP, which rules at the Centre
This is an autobiography in which the author shares his […]
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