Scarlet Sands
Udayan Mukherjee
Picador
Rs.450
The second instalment in the Neville Wadia Mystery series is set in Goa. The body of a British journalist washes up ashore on Anjuna beach, leading to an investigation by Neville that uncovers a corrupt nexus, a mysterious cult, and some dark truths.
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Delhi Vice
Balraj Juttla
Bloomsbury
Rs.599
Two tenacious journalists search for the truth after a murder of a young woman and plunge headlong into the dark underbelly of Delhi with its ruthless tycoons, pernicious policemen, and the hapless poor.
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Letters from the Ginza Shihodo Stationery Shop
Kenji Ueda, translated by Emily Balistrieri
Manilla Press
Rs.399
The stationery shop at the throbbing heart of this novel is a magical place where one can find anything from cutesy fountain pens to coloured inks to lost words. It unlocks repressed memories and secret longings.
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Documenting a Pogrom: The Anti-Sikh Violence of 1984
Manjeet H. Singh
LeftWord Books
Rs.1,250
A compilation of the testimonies of over 800 survivors of the anti-Sikh violence that followed Prime Minister Indira Gandhi’s assassination in 1984, which serve as a continuing and harrowing reminder of the human cost of communal politics.
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Chitrakar/ The Artist
Benode Behari Mukherjee, translated by K. G. Subramanyan
Seagull Books
Rs.699
An eminent artist’s translation of his teacher’s fictional memoir. What is extraordinary is that the teacher, one of the visionaries of Indian modern art, lost his eyesight in his 50s.
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Middle Class India: Driving Change in the 21st Century
Manisha Pande
Aleph
Rs.899
What makes up middle-class India? Is it defined by economic status, social standing, cultural power, aspirations, or all of the above? Manisha Pande traces the growth and evolution of the Indian middle class, the changes in its size, composition, and complexity over the years and debates the steps it needs to take as a class to drive economic growth, social harmony, and peace for the nation.
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Fiction
Playground
Richard Powers
Hutchinson Heinemann
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Unlove Story
Sudipto Pal, translated by Arunava Sinha
Seagull Books
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Voices of the Fallen Heroes and Other Stories
Yukio Mishima, edited by Stephen Dodd
Penguin Classics
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Malina
Ingeborg Bachmann
Penguin Books
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Non-fiction
You Can’t Please All: Memoirs 1980-2024
Tariq Ali
Verso Books
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An Encroaching Sea: Nature, Sovereignty and Development at the Edge of British India 1860–1950
Devika Shankar
Cambridge University Press
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Land Power: Who Has It, Who Doesn’t, and How That Determines the Fate of Societies
Michael Albertus
Basic Books
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Atrocity: A Literary History
Bruce Robbins
Stanford University Press
