Biblio: A Review of Books

VOL. 28 NOS. 7 – 9

JULY - SEPTEMBER 2023

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Detail of the painting ‘Squirrels in a Plane Tree’ by the Mughal artist ABU’L HASAN, c 1610. India Office Library and Records, London. (Courtesy: Wikimedia Commons)

NATURE & ENVIRONMENT

		Jay Mazoomdar on Peter Frankopan's compendium of warnings – The Earth Transformed

		Claude Alvares reviews Madhav Gadgil's memoir A Walk Up The Hill and tells you why he is 'one of a species'

		Neha Sinha appreciates Arati Kumar-Rao's 'decolonised, non-chauvinistic' nature writing in Marginlands: Indian Landscapes on the Brink

		Rakesh Kalshian on George Monbiot's radical thesis in Regenesis: Feeding the World without Devouring the Planet

		Gabriella D'Cruz tells you why The Seaweed Revolution by Vincent Doumeizel is essential reading

		Ranjit Lal marvels at the discoveries in Ed Yong's Immense World

		Divyabhanusinh's The Story of India's Cheetahs is one for a personal library says Ravi Chellam

		Nitin D Rai takes issue with K Ullas Karanth's conservation memoir Among Tigers

		Ajit Menon worries that Nayanika Mathur's 'engrossing and refreshing account' on Crooked Cats may be lost in translation

		Toby Sinclair on two recent books on Corbett’s enduring legacy: Hero of Kumaon by Duff Hart-Davis and Corbett Papers edited by Akshay Singh and Stephen Alter

		Nitoo Das delights in The Living Air – Aasheesh Pittie's world of birds

		Ankila Hiremath on why the anthology At the Feet of Living Things is a rare exception

FICTION & POETRY

		Brinda Bose on Milan Kundera's art of the novel

		Anuradha Marwah reviews Devika Rege’s ‘courageous’ debut novel Quarterlife – an exploration of the relationship between the self and the nation

		Karuna Ezara Parikh appreciates the form of Janice Pariat's latest novel – AutHer Award-winning Everything the Light Touches

		Vikramajit Ram's novel Mansur is similar to the Mughal paintings it seeks to emulate, says Amrita Sen

		Janice Pariat on the ‘songs of resistance’ in Greening the Earth: A Global Anthology of Poetry edited by K Satchidanandan and Nishi Chawla

MILAN KUNDERA (1929 – 2023)
Illustration by Anupam Arunachalam

NON FICTION

		Rudgrangshu Mukherjee comments on Dennis Dalton's choice of Indian thinkers in his updated book Indian Ideas of Freedom

		Rajeev Bhargava’s transformation from political theorist to public intellectual ‘has done us all a great service’, says Harsh Sethi

		Suhas Palshikar applauds Abhishek Choudhary’s biography of Vajpayee

HISTORY

		Amitav Ghosh’s Smoke and Ashes is one of the finest expressions of public history, says Lakshmi Subramanian

		Farhat Hasan on how Seema Alavi’s Sovereigns of the Seas corrects the historical imbalance about imperialism

		Nandini Das’s Courting India is a ‘welcome respite from the wave of studies fixated on the East India Company’s status as a corporation’, says Sunit Singh

		Malavika Karlekar reviews the Martin Kriegar’s biography of the botanist Nathaniel Wallich

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