Gangrene: Punjabi Dalit Short Stories
Translated by Akshaya Kumar and Navdeep Singh
Penguin
Rs.499
We usually do not get to hear of Dalit stories from Punjab though the State has the highest Dalit population in India. The stories here are on a variety of topics, from caste identities and rural exploitation to urban housing.
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Twice in Nalanda
Kalpish Ratna
Red River Story
Rs.399
Commuters from Nalanda Housing Society are held at gunpoint in a bus. The novel takes a peek into their minds not only at this moment of crisis but also much later, when the danger has seemingly passed.
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Heartlines: A Love Triangle
Chandrani Ghosh
Bloomsbury Publishing
Rs.399
Sharmila, an Indian American journalist, has a plush life with a celebrity boyfriend till she meets Jake Thacker. As she feels the heat of attraction, her ordered life starts to unravel and a secret threatens to resurface.
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Black wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran and the rivalry that unravelled the Middle East
Kim Ghattas
Hachette Books
Rs.799
First published in 2021, this deeply reported history that reads like a thriller argues that everything unravelling in West Asia right now can be traced back to 1979: the year of the Iranian revolution, the siege of the Grand Mosque in Mecca, and the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.
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Becoming Allies: Civil Liberties Activism in India
Ankita Pandey
Cambridge University Press
Rs. 1,200
What motivates individuals to stand up against injustices that do not personally affect them? Ankita Pandey traces the histories of groups like the People’s Union for Civil Liberties and the People’s Union for Democratic Rights to understand the ethics, dilemmas and strategies of India’s civil liberties activists.
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Trauma Nation: Fighting India’s Silent Epidemic
Nishtha Lamba
Aleph Book Company
Rs. 799
Do you always feel emotionally numb, on edge, and unable to leave toxic situations? Mental health expert Dr Nishtha Lamba explores how trauma, which she calls India’s “silent epidemic”, is handed down generations like a “cursed heirloom”, even as she offers a compassionate roadmap to healing.
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Fiction
I Give You My Silence
Mario Vargas Llosa, translated by Adrian Nathan West
Farrar Straus & Giroux
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The Man Who Saw Seconds
Alexander Boldizar
Clash Fiction
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Woodwind Harmony in the Nighttime
Reza Ghassemi, translated by Michelle Quay
Deep Vellum Publishing
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Return
Raharimanana, translated by Allison M. Charette
Seagull Books
Non-fiction
Politics Without Politicians: The Case for Citizen Rule
Hélène Landemore
Thesis
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Rasputin and the Downfall of the Romanovs
Antony Beevor
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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The Renoir Girls: A Hidden History of Art, War & Betrayal
Catherine Ostler
Simon & Schuster
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Where the Music Had to Go: How Bob Dylan and the Beatles Changed Each Other—and the World
Jim Windolf
Scribner