KM Shrimali recommends Romila Thapar’s anthology, The Past as Present

Sunit Singh reviews Vivek Chhiber’s Postcolonial Theory and the Specter of Capital and asks: what is left of Subaltern Studies?

Commemorating the centenary of World War I: Vipul Dutta salutes two illustrated books by Vedica Kant and Santanu Das

Honour and Fidelity: India’s Military Contribution to The Great War 1914-1918 - a book and documentary film by
Amarinder Singh

Farhat Hasan commends After Timur Left by Francesca Orsini and Samira Sheikh for drawing attention to the importance of 15th century India

Ferdinand Mount traces his family’s history to colonial India in The Tears of the Rajas

Amar Farooqui on Jonathan Gil Harris’s profound reflection on The First Firangis

Malavika Karlekar’s Memories of Belonging: Images from the Colony and Beyond

Achin Vanaik on How India Became Territorial by Itty Abraham

Atul Sood finds there’s lessons to be learnt from Edward Simpson’s The Political Biography of an Earthquake: Aftermath and Amnesia in Gujarat

Can India make it?: Soutik Biswas reviews Mihir S Sharma’s Restart and Hindol Sengupta’s Recasting India

Devangshu Datta on Eswar S Prasad’s The Dollar Trap and why the USD remains the reserve currency of the world

Marcy Newman urges us to listen to Edward Said On Palestine

Brinda Bose reviews the last of Amitav Ghosh’s Ibis Trilogy, Flood of Fire, and asks: will World Literature survive its
political correctness?

Anuradha Marwah applauds Anuradha Roy’s artistry in handling social critique in her latest novel Sleeping on Jupiter

Gowhar Fazili hails Suvir Kaul’s remarkable anthology, Of Gardens and Graves: Essays on Kashmir, Poems in Translation

Subhoranjan Dasgupta remembers
Günter Grass and his close connection
with Calcutta

Kavery Nambisan revels in Michael Sims’s The Adventures of Henry Thoreau

Somak Ghoshal feels Peter Carey loses the plot in Amnesia