Biblio: A Review of Books

VOL XXII NOS. 10-12

OCTOBER - DECEMBER 2017

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POLITICAL ECONOMY

		Mohan Guruswamy expected more from Raghuram Rajan’s book

		Prem Shankar Jha on TCA Srinivasa Raghavan’s ‘racy book’, Dialogue of the Deaf: The Government and the RBI

		Udit Misra looks at three books that conclude that demonetization was a bad idea and that tell us why India is losing the battle against black money

		Corruption is a pervasive but not a pathological condition says N Ram in Why Scams Are Here To Stay: Understanding Political Corruption In India

		Souvik Mukherjee on why Shankkar Aiyar’s Biometric History of India’s 12-Digit Revolution is a must-read for both proponents and opponents of Aadhaar

		Pulin B Nayak’s overview of two edited volumes on economic reforms in India by Rakesh Mohan and by Yashwant Sinha and Vinay K Srivastava

		Rajeev Malhotra commends Deepak Nayyar’s essays on Employment, Growth and Development

		Kanika Datta enjoys Goras and Desis, Omkar Goswami’s entertaining potted history of managing agencies and the making of corporate India

		From Silk to Silicon: The Story of Globalization through Ten Extraordinary Lives by Jeffrey E Garten

FICTION & POETRY

		Is the 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature winner Kazuo Ishiguro the ‘quinoa of literature’? asks Nandini Lal

		Karthik Shankar reviews The Story of a Brief Marriage by Anuk Arudpragasam, winner of the 2017 DSC Prize for South Asian Literature and the Shakti Bhatt First Book Prize

		Supriya Chaudhuri on Salman Rushdie’s latest novel The Golden House

		Alice Albinia looks at Ali Smith’s Autumn and Fiona Mozley’s Elmet – two books with the subtext: ‘Britain bloody mess’

		Githa Hariharan on Nayantara Sahgal’s new novel, When the Moon Shines By Day, on the idea of India and shared pasts

		Kunal Ray perceives a different Ambai in her new book of short stories

		Shalini Mukerji on Torsa Ghosal’s debut novel Open Couplets

		Manju Jain appreciates two volumes that contain the entire corpus of TS Eliot’s poems edited by Christopher Ricks and Jim McCue

Anuk Arudpragasam speaking at the Dhaka Lit Fest on 18th November 2017 where he was declared the winner of the US $25,000 DSC Prize for South Asian Literature for his novel ‘The Story of a Brief Marriage’

NON FICTION

		Mani Shankar Aiyar applauds TCA Raghavan’s book The People Next Door

		Apoorvanand on the relevance of Rajmohan Gandhi’s appraisal of his grandfather’s legacy

		Anant Maringanti reviews India Dissents: 3000 Years of Difference, Doubt and Argument edited by Ashok Vajpeyi

		Books on Partition:

		Tabish Khair commends Rakhshanda Jalil’s translation of Gulzar’s anthology Footprints on Zero Line

		Urvashi Butalia appreciates Aanchal Malhotra’s Remnants of a Separation: A History of the Partition through Material Memory

MEMOIR & BIOGRAPHY

		Syeda Hameed recommends Sheela Reddy’s engaging biography Mr and Mrs Jinnah: The Marriage that Shook India for both students of history and literature

		Razak Khan on the literary patronage of the Mughal court through two excellent biographies: The Life and Poetry of Bahadur Shah by Aslam Parvez, translated by Ather Farooqui and TCA Raghavan’s Attendant Lords: Bairam Khan and Abdur Rahim, Courtiers and Poets in Mughal India

		Jawhar Sircar on Reba Som’s comprehensive biography of Sister Nivedita

		Satyam Viswanathan enjoys Maria Sharapova’s mid-career autobiography Unstoppable

REVIEWERS’ CHOICE

		A selection of the most memorable books of 2017 by Biblio reviewers

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