Amita Baviskar on Assa Doron and Robin Jeffrey’s insightful enquiry into why India is so filthy

Ajay Shankar tells you why Prem Shankar Jha’s Dawn of the Solar Age: An End to Global Warming and Fear is extraordinary and timely

Dunu Roy covers Sunita Narain’s Journey through India’s Green Movement

Manoj Misra on Victor Mallet’s enquiry on whether a ‘Clean Ganga’ is a
mission impossible

Nitin D Rai reviews Raghu Chundawat’s Ten Years of Research in Panna National Park and his proposed new
conservation approach

The Story of India’s Unicorn is a compelling biography of the Greater One horned rhinoceros says John Mathew

Radha Gopalan delights in
Lathika George’s Mother Earth, Sister Seed: Travels through India’s Farmlands

Ranjit Lal delves into and enjoys
Richard Jones’s Secret World of Dung

John H Bowles appreciates Tara Books’ latest illustrated offering: Water by Gond artist Subhash Vyam

Rakesh Kalshian is reminded of Bastar’s fabled mystique captured in
Narendra’s Bastar Dispatches

Ranjit Nair on Stephen Hawking’s singular swansong

Sanjay Sipahimalani reviews Red Birds, Mohammed Hanif’s ‘funny book about sad things’

Samantak Das appreciates Sumana Roy’s ‘wonderfully intricate’ novel, Missing

Giti Chandra tells you what’s unique in Keki N Daruwalla’s latest novel Swerving to Solitude

Rohit Chakraborty reviews graphic novelist Parismita Singh’s foray into fiction

Maaz Bin Bilal’s overview of Urdu literature: Ralph Russell’s A Thousand Yearnings and Hasan Abdullah’s The Evolution of Ghalib

Sameer Chopra applauds Madhavi Menon’s Infinite Variety: A History of Desire in India

Gurcharan Das values Wendy Doniger’s ‘insightful and delightful’ interrogation of Dissent in the Ancient Sciences of Sex
and Politics

Bibek Debroy on why the third book in Gurcharan Das’s trilogy, Kama: The Riddle of Desire, is not as good as his earlier two

Elizabeth Flock’s Love and Marriage in Mumbai is a fabulous book says
Madhavi Menon

Amruta Patil tells you why Seema Anand is the ideal person to comment on the
Kama Sutra

Darius Cooper comments on Brinda Bose’s essays on ‘Displaced Desires’ in her book The Audacity of Pleasure: Sexualities, Literature and Cinema in India

Rashmi Sawhney’s appreciation of Geeta Patel’s Risky Bodies & Techno-Intimacy: Reflections on Sexuality, Media, Science, Finance for redefining epistemology

Satish C Aikant seconds Pavan K Varma’s claim that Adi Shankaracharya is Hinduism’s Greatest Thinker

Sayandeb Chowdhury agrees with
Reza Aslan’s God: A Human History

A selection of their most memorable books of 2018 by Biblio reviewers