Jairam Ramesh’s biography Indira Gandhi:
A Life in Nature explores her under-appreciated green legacy

Bittu Sahgal recommends the memoir of
MK Ranjitsinh, “wildlifer extraordinaire”

The Vanishing: India’s Wildlife Crisis ¬–
Prerna Singh Bindra’s account of India’s abysmal environmental governance
post-liberalisation

India’s best-known television journalist
Swati Thiyagarajan’s Born Wild now
in print

An extract from Harsh Mander’s
Introduction in Islands of Flux by
Pankaj Sekhsaria

Amita Baviskar thoroughly enjoys Hope Jahren’s Lab Girl: a story of trees, science
and love

Soity Banerjee savours the wonder foods in Centre of Science and Environment’s First Food: Culture of Taste

In the Jungle of the Night: A Novel about Jim Corbett by Stephen Alter

Tushant Jha on Yuval Noah Harari’s popular histories: Homo Sapiens and Homo Deus

Brinda Bose on Arundhati Roy’s brave antinovel The Ministry of Utmost Happiness

Nilanjana S Roy finds Kamila Shamsie’s Home Fire rich and disturbing

Sanjay Sipahimalani feels Osama Siddique overreaches with Snuffing Out the Moon

Darius Cooper reviews Mohsin Hamid’s new novel Exit West

Debut novels

Sharanya Manivannan on Prayaag Akbar’s “devastating debut” Leila

Vishnupriya Sengupta on Faiqa Mansab’s The House of Clay and Water

Bhisham Bherwani on Eunice de Souza’s last book of poetry Learn From the
Almond Leaf

Giti Chandra says Sagarika Ghose’s
biography Indira is a tour de force

Farhat Hasan appreciates
Audrey Truschke’s scholarship on the
Mughal Empire

Narayani Gupta tells you who the victor
of Haldighati really is

Swapna Liddle’s walk through the
historical alleys of Chandni Chowk: The Mughal City of Old Delhi

Stuti Khanna appreciates
Vasudha Dalmia’s Fiction as History:
The Novel and the City in Modern
North India