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Fragile as papadums: Review of Sabin Iqbal’s ‘The Cliffhangers’

Radhika Santhanam A book that will make you smell the salty sea of Kerala while sitting at home

‘Asianization of Migrant Workers in the Gulf Countries’ review: Heading into a perfect storm

Aditi Bhaduri An estimated 12 million people from across south and southeast Asia live and work in the Gulf region. As borders become rigid, what is the future of such migration?

The future is now: Review of Lavanya Lakshminarayan’s ‘Analog/Virtual: And Other Simulations of Your Future’

Praveena Shivram The futuristic world of the stories seems frighteningly real

technology ‘Facebook – The Inside Story’ review: The curious case of Facebook

Unravelling events and actions that powered the inception and evolution of Mark Zuckerberg’s social media network

judiciary A divided bench: Inside the world of courts and their verdicts

Taking up 10 forgotten cases, a writer explains how the judiciary in India has at times been ‘more executive-minded than the executive’

The Calcutta cult: Review of Uttaran Das Gupta’s ‘Ritual’ by Ankush Saikia

Ankush Saikia A plot that loses its way in the preoccupation with a fictionalised right-wing organisation

‘The Coronavirus: What you Need to Know about the Global Pandemic’ review: Once in a century pathogens and a coronavirus

Jacob Koshy A lucid account of how the world has travelled from the ‘Spanish Flu’ to COVID-19 and what this latest virus does to the immune system

Creatures of blood and bone: Review of Anita Agnihotri’s ‘A Day in the Life of Mangal Taram’

Pragati K.B. The children in these stories are dauntingly real, and you feel their pain

travel ‘The Tiger & the Ruby: A Journey to the Other Side of British India’ review: Looking back in time

ECONOMY Reviews

ECONOMY ‘India Unlimited: Reclaiming the Lost Glory’ review: Hurdles to India’s growth

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judiciary Reviews

A divided bench: Inside the world of courts and their verdicts

technology Reviews

‘Facebook – The Inside Story’ review: The curious case of Facebook

society Reviews

‘Asianization of Migrant Workers in the Gulf Countries’ review: Heading into a perfect storm

Coming-of-age novel Books

Fragile as papadums: Review of Sabin Iqbal’s ‘The Cliffhangers’

Speculative Fiction Books

The future is now: Review of Lavanya Lakshminarayan’s ‘Analog/Virtual: And Other Simulations of Your Future’

profile Reviews

A celebration of faith amid the darkness

‘All the Wrong Turns: Perspectives on the Indian Economy’ review: Gross domestic problem

An analysis of the past few decades, delves into India’s economic constraints

‘The Deoliwallahs: The True Story of the 1962 Chinese-Indian Internment’ review: Questioning diverse identities

In the aftermath of the 1962 war, Chinese Indians became victims of hate

‘The Coronavirus: What you Need to Know about the Global Pandemic’ review: Once in a century pathogens and a coronavirus

A lucid account of how the world has travelled from the ‘Spanish Flu’ to COVID-19 and what this latest virus does to the immune system

‘The Tiger & the Ruby: A Journey to the Other Side of British India’ review: Looking back in time

A probe into an ancestor’s history sweeps across the subcontinent before finding closure in Kathmandu

‘India Unlimited: Reclaiming the Lost Glory’ review: Hurdles to India’s growth

NITI Aayog’s former vice-chairman Arvind Panagariya critiques the economic policies of premiers from Nehru to Modi, and pushes for strong reforms

The Calcutta cult: Review of Uttaran Das Gupta’s ‘Ritual’ by Ankush Saikia

A plot that loses its way in the preoccupation with a fictionalised right-wing organisation

Creatures of blood and bone: Review of Anita Agnihotri’s ‘A Day in the Life of Mangal Taram’

The children in these stories are dauntingly real, and you feel their pain

‘Ordinary People, Extraordinary Teachers: The Heroes of Real India’ review: A difference in the classroom

Taking stock of public education in India, and the improvement in government schools

Watershed 1967: India’s Forgotten Victory over China review: Fiery Himalayan encounters at Nathu La and Cho La

A former infantryman with the Gorka Regiment traces the battles between India and China on the Sikkim border in 1967

‘Trumped: Emerging Powers in a Post-American World’ review: Trump and the decline of America

What is stopping emerging powers like Brazil, Turkey, India and Nigeria from seizing the moment to provide some leadership in a post-U.S. world?

Everywoman’s narrative: Review of Cho Nam-Joo’s ‘Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982’

Impressive as a social document that records the everyday oppressions faced by women in a patriarchal society, the book doesn’t quite pack a punch as a literary work

Hungry yarns: Review of Sabita Radhakrishna’s ‘The Looms of Arivoor’

In Radhakrishna’s descriptions of village life lie her strengths as a novelist

Reading the tea leaves

Two writers recollect the rhythm of life at a tea garden in South India

‘White as Milk and Rice: Stories of India’s Isolated Tribes’ review: At home in the world of the Halakkis, Konyaks, Marias

A rich, in-depth study of tribal life is felt from within and not viewed from the outside, making the margins a place of reality

‘Good Economics for Hard Times: Better Answers to Our Biggest Problems’ review: Have plumbers, need architect

Seeing economists as ‘plumbers’, Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo show how economic reasoning and evidence can shed light on real-world issues

Delightfully meandering mystery

As this latest novel proves, Mukherjee has made quite a mark in his chosen retro genre of the Christiesque murder mystery

‘La Peste’ by Albert Camus

When La Peste (The Plague) was published in 1947, it was read in part as an allegory of France’s plight under Nazi occupation during the Second World

‘Bridgital Nation – Solving Technology’s People Problem’ review: Fantastic bond

Two writers push for a virtual bridge to connect diverse India

‘V.P. Menon: The Unsung Architect of Modern India’ review: Adviser to the powerful

A much needed biography of an outstanding bureaucrat in the run-up to Independence is marred by an overdependence on only one source, V.P. Menon’s papers

‘The Social Question in the Twenty-First Century – A Global View’ review: For a coalition of the excluded

Will the undocumented migrant, the indebted farmer, the brutalised student, and the demonised minority forge an alliance in a quest for social justice?

‘Shahjahanabad: The Living City of Old Delhi’ review: Jinn masjid and other fragments of Old Delhi

In the final volume of her trilogy, Rana Safvi brings alive Shahjahanabad’s lanes and monuments through research and story-telling

‘Plassey: The Battle that Changed the Course of Indian History’ review: Conspiracy in a mango orchard

Moving away from the British Raj’s whitewashed accounts of Robert Clive and the East India Company, Sudeep Chakravarti breaks new ground in a retelling of the battle of Plassey

‘Truck De India’ review: The road to highways

A delightful read on truck drivers who live in relative obscurity

‘Sridevi, The Eternal Screen Goddess’ review: Chronicle of a distant life

The enigma that was Sridevi is explored in a biography, an eminently readable fanboy account

‘Backstage: The Story Behind India’s High Growth Years’ review: Strategist at work

As one of the key players in the finance ministry, the PMO and the now defunct Planning Commission, Montek Singh Ahluwalia captures the essence of policymaking between 1985 and 2014

‘Road to Mekong’ review: Riders on the storm

Four women on motorcycles travel from Hyderabad to Southeast Asia and back

We have come through: Review of Isabel Allende’s ‘A Long Petal of the Sea’

Allende’s affecting, if a bit too optimistic, story of displacement and homelessness, hits home

‘Irrfan Khan The Man, The Dreamer, The Star’ review: Kite runner to actor

A biography of actor Irrfan Khan by Aseem Chhabra harps on his love for challenges

‘Bombay Before Mumbai: Essays in Honour of Jim Masselos’ review: How the modern, cosmopolitan Bombay citizen came to be

A collection of essays inspired by Jim Masselos, whose work has done much to reshape the way historians think about Mumbai

‘A Chequered Brilliance: The Many Lives of V.K. Krishna Menon’ review: The politics of V.K. Krishna Menon

An even-handed and balanced appraisal of Nehru’s envoy and defence minister, who was both an international phenomenon and a bundle of contradictions

The loneliness of long-distance runners: Jeanine Cummins’ ‘American Dirt’ reviewed

Racy, yes; unputdownable, yes; but the new American classic it is not

The man, the legend, the tash: Review of S. Hareesh’s ‘Moustache’

The novel is thought-provoking, if problematic. And it is slightly let down by an overly literal translation

‘The Cultural Economy of Land’ review: Beyond dates and numbers

Tracing the agrarian past of a ravaged Bengal district from colonial to nationalist times

‘Return to Sri Lanka: Travels in a Paradoxical Island’ review: Mirror to a thousand realities

Narratives about ethnic mixing, religious syncretism and the innate goodness of the people lift a writer’s rather bleak outlook about Sri Lanka

A lifetime in pursuit of Gandhism

Devaki Jain’s books cover more than five decades of building ideas through an engagement with feminist questions, women’s movements, and global politics of development

‘Journey of a Civilization: Indus to Vaigai’ review: The route from Harappa to Keezhadi

A researcher explains what happened to the culture and language of the Indus Valley Civilisation after it started disintegrating around 1900 BCE

‘But You Don’t Look Like a Muslim’ review: The long shadow of Partition

Rakhshanda Jalil on the stereotyping of a religion and why every Muslim has to prove her Indianness on a daily basis

‘India’s Founding Moment – The Constitution of a Most Surprising Country’ review: How India came to be one

In replacing the colonial system of governance with a democratic model predicated on a written Constitution, the Indian Republic sought freedom from the shackles of the past

‘Karl Marx – Philosophy and Revolution’ review: Reading Karl Marx in the 21st century

A historian introduces the German philosopher and his critical thinking for the times, warts and all

‘The ISIS Peril – The World’s Most Feared Terror Group and its Shadow on South Asia’ review: The long reach of ISIS

What are the ideological underpinnings of the jihadist movement in South Asia?

Nothing comes out of nothing: Jeet Thayil’s ‘Low’ reviewed by Aditya Sudarshan

The shadow of loss overhangs the narrative. But instead of a human story what we have here is a charade of humanity

Poverty of ideas and a crisis in learning

Why has Indian education failed to imbibe the teachings of Gandhi and Tagore and lead students towards a path of inquiry?

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