Biblio: A Review of Books

VOL. 28 NOS. 10 – 12

OCTOBER - DECEMBER 2023

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*‘Courtesan with a Cat’ from ‘My Cat and I’ series, Kalighat style, by BAPI CHITRAKAR. From the book The Indian Cat* by B N Goswamy (Aleph Book Company, 2023).**

TRANSLATIONS

		Pravina Cooper on Perumal Murugan’s Pyre and his oeuvre

		Beautifully translated by Srinath Perur, Sakina's Kiss by Vivek Shanbhag shows that the best Indian writing is often in the languages, says Jonathan Gil Harris

		Mathangi Krishnamurthy on why author Charu Nivedita and translator Nandini Krishnan's Conversations with Aurangzeb 'tells a damn good story’

		Somak Ghoshal admires the late Bangladeshi writer Shahidul Zahir's narrative creativity in I See Your Face, translated by V Ramaswamy

		Tabish Khair on Rahul Soni's ‘excellent translation’ of Shrikant Verma's Sahitya Award-winning poetry collection Magadh

		Huzaifa Omair Siddiqi interprets the importance of Premchand's historical play Karbala translated and introduced by Nishat Zaidi

FICTION

		Ritu Menon finds resonances of her earlier story Bel Canto in Ann Patchett's latest Tom Lake

		Nandini Lal on Yellowface – Rebecca Kuang's 'young and trendy satire about young and trendy writers

		Uttaran Das Gupta locates Brinda Charry's The East Indian within the contemporary debates on immigration

		Sampurna Chattarji tells you what makes Rimli Sengupta's novel A Lost People's Archive novel

		Siddhartha Deb's latest novel ‘is a collection of apocalypses’, says Omair Ahmad

		Sanjay Sipahimalani reviews Santanu Bhattacharya's debut novel One Small Voice

		Kiran Keshavamurthy is underwhelmed by Abraham Verghese’s The Covenant of Water

NON FICTION

		Iman Mitra reviews Ulbe Bosma’s The World of Sugar

		Akila Seshasayee marvels at the creatures of wonder in Aarathi Prasad’s Silk: A History in Three Metamorphoses

		For his last book, the late art historian BN Goswamy ‘settled for a worthy, charming and unusual subject’ – The Indian Cat, says Nilanjana S Roy

		Shobhit Mahajan on Chip War – Chris Miller's 'thrilling account' of the fight for the world’s most critical technology

		Vappala Balachandran commends Ushinor Majumdar’s ‘riveting and lucid chronicle’ of India’s Secret War: BSF and the Nine Months to the Birth of Bangladesh

		Madhav Nayar hails Harmony Siganporia’s ‘brave experiment’ Walking from Dandi in Search of Vikas

		Swathi Shivanand highlights the potential of Prachi Deshpande's ‘middle duree approach’ in her cultural history Scripts of Power

		Radhika Iyengar’s ‘immersive’ book Fire on the Ganges about the Doms of Banaras will ‘inspire more people to see the unseeable’ says Saurabh Sharma

		Tanvir Aeijaz finds Ashoka Mody’s India is Broken ‘hard-hitting, data-driven and well-argued’

		With his ‘clear-headed analysis’ in Kerala: Another Possible World, TM Thomas Isaac makes a good case for the ‘Kerala model’, says Pulin B Nayak

REVIEWER'S CHOICE

		A selection of the most memorable books of 2023 by Biblio reviewers

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