Rohit Brijnath on the necessary power of Michael Holding’s Why We Kneel, How We Rise

Rajdeep Sardesai appreciates Not Just Cricket – sports journalist Pradeep Magazine’s memoir

Suresh Menon’s essay on Sports, Literature and COVID-19

Ramachandra Guha’s cricketing memoir Commonwealth of Cricket and why Basab Majumdar considers him the CLR James of Indian cricket

Satyam Viswanathan on Christopher Clarey’s ‘rich and riveting’ account of Roger Federer The Master

Pullela Gopichand’s Shuttler’s Flick: Making Every Match Count is a ‘masterclass on lived excellence’ says Aparna Popat

A A good innings but could have been better’ feels S Giridhar about the anthology Indian Innings: The Journey of Indian Cricket from 1947 edited by Ayaz Memon

Dilip D’Souza is disappointed with 1971: The Beginning of India’s Cricketing Greatness by Boria Majumdar and Gautam Bhattacharya

Supriya Chaudhuri on John le Carré’s posthumous novel Silverview and the long shadow of the Cold War

Shiv Kunal Verma’s 1965,The Western Sunrise is the most comprehensive account of the war yet says Manoj Joshi

Chandrashekhar Dasgupta’s India and The Bangladesh Liberation War is highly recommended by Mani Shankar Aiyar

Krishnan Srinivasan on the brave ground reporting of Manash Ghosh during the Bangladesh War

Meher Ali writes about her grandfather, who was a colonel in the Pakistan Army in 1971, in her essay “Between Remembering and Forgetting: 1971 and the Inheritance of Loss”

Deb Mukharji reviews Rehman Sobhan’s Untranquil Recollections: Nation Building in Post-Liberation Bangladesh

Madhav Nayar reviews Rudrangshu Mukherjee’s latest book – Gandhi & Tagore: Walking Alone, Walking Together

Gangeya Mukherji analyses Jyotirmaya Sharma’s study Elusive Non-violence: The Making and Unmaking of Gandhi’s Religion of Ahimsa

Apoorvanand looks at three recent books that investigate the reasons for Gandhi’s Assassination: The Making of Nathuram Godse and His Idea of India
The Murderer, The Monarch and The Fakir by Appu Esthose Suresh and Priyanka Kotamraju
Let’s Kill Gandhi by Tushar Gandhi
Gandhi’s Assassin by Dhirendra K Jha

Harsh Sethi analyses Christophe Jaffrelot’s ‘magisterial volume’ Modi’s India: Hindu Nationalism and Rise of Ethnic Democracy

Sukumar Muralidharan on Josy Joseph’s disturbing The Silent Coup: A History of India’s Deep State

Ashutosh reviews Sagarika Ghose’s latest biography – Atal Bihari Vajpayee: India’s Most Loved Prime Minister

AS Panneerselvan on the gaps between rhetoric and reality in Vaasanthi’s biography of Rajnikanth