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Book Review: The Most Notorious Jailbreakers

Book Name: The Most Notorious Jailbreakers Author: Abeer Kapoor Publisher: Rupa Genre: Non-fiction Rating: 5/5 Book Blurb: Did you know Sher Singh Rana, Bandit Queen Phoolan Devi’s killer, walked out of prison with his friends dressed up like the police…

Aleph to publish The Battle of Belonging by Shashi Tharoor

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‘The Battle of Belonging is the most important book written by an active politician on lndianess, and the political, religious, and cultural forces and ideas that have shaped it, since Jawaharlal Nehru’s The Discovery of India.’ -David Davidar. Publisher, Aleph…

Book Review: Myths of Old by Krishnarjun Bhattacharya

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Book Name: Myths of Old Author: Krishnarjun Bhattacharya Publisher: Fingerprint Genre: Fiction Rating: 4.9/5 Book Blurb: ‘Where is Adri?’‘Hiding, somewhere in the darkness.’‘I am Darkness!’ Come forth, come hither. It is finally time.Fairy tales, and spit and blood and bone…

Rupa to publish THE FIXER by Suman Dubey

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ABOUT THE BOOK  (INR 295, 304PP) Neil Upadhyay could never imagine getting involved in match-fixing. Not after a twenty-year career in Indian cricket. Not after he had sacrificed everything for Cricket—his stake in a large family business, the affection of…