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Book review: Called by the Hills by Anuradha Roy

Over hill and dale First, it`s a memoir that takes us on a leisurely wander through the forests and dirt tracks of Ranikhet, where the author has lived for a quarter of a century now. Second, it has the most luscious illustrations ever, all done by the author, giving us a clear picture of just…

Book review: The Tiger`s Share by Keshava Guha

THE TIGER`S SHARE by Keshava Guha, India publishers Hachette. Sons and daughters, heirs and non-heirs, the seriously wealthy and the merely rich, the collecting of property in and around the capital city, class barriers, a glimpse into the lives of the now shrinking Anglophone liberal elite, societal snobbery, the overweening sense of entitlement, suffocating patriarchy,…

Book review: Becoming Bangalore by Roopa Pai

BECOMING BANGALORE, Hachette Books is the most delightful chronicling of a city ever. It`s a compendium of essays from Roopa Pai`s ongoing newspaper column on Bangalore; compact, engaging, insightful 600-word passages that pack in much information to both educate and entertain the reader. Things I learned after reading the book: *Why Bangalore`s trees bloom in…

Book review: Your Utopia by Bora Chung

They walk amongst us Bora Chung`s Cursed Bunny was shortlisted for the 2022 International Booker Prize. In this new offering by the accomplisher author, titled Your Utopia and immaculately translated by Anton Hur, we meet a host of characters, some human, some decidedly not, all imbued with strong streaks of strangeness. One hesitates to categorise…

Book review: Please Look After Mother by Kyung-Sook Shin

PLEASE LOOK AFTER MOTHER by Kyung-Sook Shin. Hachette India Books. Alright, I`ll confess: I picked this book up only because of the buzz that has surrounded it ever since it released a decade ago. Written by one of South Korea`s most widely read writers, a million-copy bestseller, winner of the Man Asian literary prize, the…

Book review: The Earthspinner by Anuradha Roy

Another little gem from Anuradha Roy, THE EARTHSPINNER (Hachette Books) traces the troubled path of potter Elango in the Kummarrapet basti somewhere in the Deccan,. He has the temerity to fall in love with a Muslim girl Zohra, and what`s more, to sculpt a large terracotta horse as attribute to what they think is their…