Published by Orient BlackSwan, 2023, 148 pages. “Abid Hasan Safrani...was a quiet revolutionary who kept himself out of the limelight even while being present at every vital scene and moment of the final phase of our freedom struggle...”—Sugata Bose, Foreword First of all, full disclosure: Ismat Mehdi is my aunt. So this book is personal …
Month: July 2025
The Devil’s Flute Murders: Seishi Yokomizo
Translated from Japanese by Jim Rion.Published by Pushkin Vertigo, 2023, 348 pages. Original version published in 1973. Japan 1947. The end of the Second World War has resulted in social upheaval, and the aristocracy has lost its privileges, which earns it the moniker of the “sunset clan”. This novel is about one of these families. …
Eurotrash: Christian Kracht
Translated from German by Daniel BowlesPublished by Serpent's Tail, 2024, 190 pages. Original version published in 2021. “So I shall go on a trip with her, I’d thought, and maybe it will be her last.” A man takes his 80-year-old mother for a trip around their native Switzerland, revisiting places from their past—and in the …
Dearly: Margaret Atwood
Published by Chatto & Windus, 2020, 124 pages “Dearly beloved, gathered here togetherin this closed drawer,fading now, I miss you.I miss the missing, those who left earlier.I miss even those who are still here.I miss you all dearly.Dearly do I sorrow for you.” “You can wander away. You can get lost.Words can do that.”—Dearly These …
Mindscapes—A Canvas of Emotions in a Special World: Neena Rao
Published by Margika—An NGO for Special Needs Children, 2022, 249 pages. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), one in four people faces challenges in the functioning of their body or mind. Many of them start experiencing these challenges— autism, for example, or a physical disability—before they are 25. However, this does not mean that …
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