ANOTHER INTERPRETER OF INDIAN MALADIES
Suketu Mehta's Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found picks up, historically, where V S Naipaul left off -- with the post-Babri Masjid riots and bomb blasts of 1993. Mehta follows the same trajectory of trying to understand the lumpenisation of a great and throbbing metropolis More

THE VOICES OF THE MILLWORKERS OF MUMBAI
‘One Hundred Years One Hundred Voices’ is a strong and sprawling history of Mumbai’s textile mill district and its 1.3 million people, now displaced by the consumer civilisation More

THE UNHEARD SCREAM: REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH AND WOMEN'S LIVES
A review of a new book on the neglect, deprivation and non-existent reproductive healthcare in India More

MOTHER GODDESSES AND WARRIORS: RSS WOMEN AS IDEOLOGUES
Paola Baccheta’s new book explores the minds and ideological constructs of women who are part of the nationalist Hindu movement More