Book: Visible Muslim, Invisible Citizen
Author: Salman Khurshid
Publisher: Rupa
Our understanding of religion in modern India is, amongst others, greatly influenced by Hinduism and the distorted aggressive political statement of Hindutva. In this book, Salman Khurshid attempts to place Islam in the context of modernism, and the Indian Muslim in the perspective of contemporary politics.
Book: Fear of Lions
Author: Amita Kanekar
Publisher: Hachette
On a hot April morning in 1673, two young Mughal nobles, Shamsher and his sister Zeenat, leave Shahjahanabad for a trip down the royal highway to the market town of Narnaul. Their journey takes them through the shattered landscape of a recently crushed uprising — one different from those the Mughal Empire frequently spawned.
Book: The Far Field
Author: Madhuri Vijay
Publisher: Fourth Estate
Madhuri Vijay traces the fault lines of history, love, and obligation running through a fractured family and country. Gorgeously tactile and sweeping in historical and socio-political scope, this book follows a complicated flaneuse across the Indian subcontinent as she reckons with her past, her desires, and the tumultuous present.
Book: Who is Bharat Mata
Edited by: Purushottam Agrawal
Publisher: Speaking Tiger
An unprecedented and timely collection of writings by and on Jawaharlal Nehru — the man whose legacy is the subject of debate today. It is a book of relevance at a time when ‘nationalism’ and the slogan ‘Bharat Mata Ki Jai’ are being used to construct a militant and purely emotional idea of India.
