Greek Lessons
Han Kang’s Greek Lessons is a quiet, unsettling novel about silence, language, loss, memory, and the fragile ways human beings try to reach one another.
Book Reviews
The Sense of an Ending
Julian Barnes’s The Sense of an Ending is a quiet, beautifully written novel about memory, remorse, ageing, friendship, and how we reshape the story of our own lives.
Why The Poor Don’t Kill Us
Why the Poor Don’t Kill Us is Manu Joseph’s first non-fiction book, and it asks a disturbing question: why do India’s poor endure injustice without revolting against the rich or the system? This review looks at the book’s sharpest arguments, its dark humour, and the places where I disagreed with Joseph.
Mother Mary Comes to Me
Arundhati Roy’s Mother Mary Comes to Me is a memoir about her mother Mary Roy, their complex relationship, Roy’s writing life, politics, memory, and becoming a writer.
The Many Lives of Syeda X
Neha Dixit’s The Many Lives of Syeda X tells the story of an invisible woman worker whose life reveals the realities of migration, informal labour, poverty, gender, and survival in India.
Heart Lamp
Heart Lamp is an emotional and evocative read. It is a portal that takes the readers into a world where we see it through the eyes of women. And it is not a gentle and just world – though the stories are of Muslim women, but they hold true for the poor and marginalized women of all religions.
Peeli Chatri Wali Ladki
पीली छतरी वाली लड़की, उदय प्रकाश जी के एक बेहतरीन किताब जो यूनिवर्सिटी के प्रेम के बारे मे और थोड़ा कुछ और है.
Masala Lab
Krish Ashok’s Masala Lab explains the science of Indian cooking, from spices, flavour, heat, and texture to food myths, kitchen techniques, and better cooking.
Kashmir in Conflict
Victoria Schofield’s Kashmir in Conflict is a well-researched book on the history of Kashmir, accession, India-Pakistan tensions, militancy, and the roots of the Kashmir conflict.
The Identity Project
Rahul Bhatia’s The Identity Project examines Hindu identity, citizenship, Aadhaar, CAA, Delhi 2020, surveillance, and the changing nature of Indian democracy.