Shivshankar Menon on Sugata Bose’s ‘deep and fascinating examination of the mobility of ideas and people in 20th-century Asia’ – Asia after Europe

Vijay Gokhale’s assessments in Crossroads ‘display considerable and contestable wisdom in hindsight’, says Krishnan Srinivasan

Pulin B Nayak reflects on Thomas Piketty’s optimistic manifesto in A Brief History of Equality

Pranav Verma on Gautam Bhatia’s ‘bleak diagnosis’ of the Indian judiciary in his collection of blog posts Unsealed Covers: A Decade of the Constitution, the Courts, and the State

Abdul Matin reviews Tanweer Fazal’s study of the Practices of the State and his challenge to the plural foundations of the ‘Idea of India’

Mohan Rao salutes Sreenivasan Jain, Maryam Alavi and Supriya Sharma, the authors of Love Jihad and Other Fictions