Aditya Mani Jha recommends Hilary Mantel’s ‘last gift’ – A Memoir of My Former Self

Shikha Mukerjee reviews Nandini Satpathy: The Iron Lady of Orissa by Pallavi Rebbapragada – a long overdue biography

Shobhaa Dé’s memoir Insatiable leaves Tabish Khair asking for more

Rohit Brijnath reviews The Day I Became a Runner – Sohini Chattopadhyay’s ‘sensitive and compelling’ account of Indian women athletes

Amal Allana rises to the challenge of writing a biography of Ebrahim Alkazi – father of modern Indian theatre and her own father – unsparingly, feels
Parul Dave Mukherji

Ellora Puri concurs with MK Raina that he is a ‘child of Indian socialism’ on reading his memoir Before I Forget

Vikram Phukan reviews Anjum Katyal’s latest theatre study: Safdar Hashmi: Towards a Theatre for Democracy – a homage to an icon of Indian street theatre

Shohini Ghosh on K Hariharan’s ‘thought-provoking book’ on Kamal Haasan’s cinematic journey

Iman K Mitra applauds Joya Chatterji’s ‘magnum opus’ – Shadows at Noon: The South Asian Twentieth Century

Sudhanva Deshpande on Raja Shehadeh’s ‘gently fierce essay’ – What Does Israel Fear from Palestine?

Arvind Narrain reflects on Radha Kumar’s idea of two republics and three waves of democratization in The Republic Relearnt

Harish Khare is not quite convinced by Christophe Jaffrelot’s arguments in Gujarat Under Modi: The Blueprint for Today’s India

Mahtab Alam shows how Mrityunjay Sharma’s Broken Promises: Caste, Crime and Politics in Bihar is plagued by
half truths

Ruchir Sharma’s analysis of What Went Wrong with Capitalism is ‘well-written, well-organised and provides much
food for thought’, says Devangshu Datta

In Pulin B Nayak’s opinion Robert Skidelsy’s primer What’s Wrong with Economics ought to be essential reading for students of Economics

Brinda Bose reflects on Michael Ondaatje’s poetic paean – A Year of Last Things

Debolina Dey reviews Gabriel García Márquez’s “lost novel” – Until August

Pratik Kanjilal tells you why Upamanyu Chatterjee’s latest novel Lorenzo Searches for the Meaning of Life stands apart

Ritu Menon on Sujeev Sahota’s ‘hauntingly moving’ new novel – The Spoiled Heart

Neelum Saran Gour appreciates The Greatest Malayalam Stories Ever Told, selected and translated by AJ Thomas

Shazia Malik on Farhat Hasan’s ‘thought-provoking exploration’ of women’s poetry in 19th-century India – Voices in Verses

Kumkum Roy’s expectations are ‘partially realised’ on reading Wendy Doniger’s The Dharma of Unfaithful Wives and Faithful Jackals: Some Moral Tales from the Mahabharata