Books & Authors April To July 2018

Table of Contents

The English Patient By Michael Ondaatje

The English Patient,” the wartime love story by Michael Ondaatje, won the Golden Man Booker
Prize at the Southbank Centre in London
Majuli: Resources and Challenges Edited by Sanjib Kumar Borkakoti
Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar: Vyakti Nahin Sankalp : Edited by Kishor Makwana
India’s Heritage of Gharana Music: Pandits of Gwalior” By Meeta Pandit
Across the Bench – Insight into the Indian Military Judicial System’ . By Lt Gen Gyan
Bhushan
Hidden India By Latika Nath
‘A Treatise on Cleanliness’ and ‘Waste Management, an Introduction’, by Shri Rajat Bhargava
Flights by Olga Tokarczuk Winner of the Man Booker International Prize 2018.
The Dhoni Touch by journalist and writer Bharat Sundaresan
Saifuddin Soz
Kashmir Glimpses of
History and the Story of
Struggle
ANITA GETS BAIL
BY
ARUN SHOURIE
The Last Colour
BY
Vikas Khanna
Adi Shankaracharya – Hinduism’s Greatest Thinker by Pavan KVarma
Mr. M.K. Gandhi ki Champaran Diary By Arvind Mohan
Champaran Andolan 1917 : Edited By – Ashutosh Partheshwar
Peer Mohammed Munis: Kalam Ka Satyagrahi : Collected and edited by Srikant
My Journey from Marxism-leninism to Nehruvian Socialism By C. H. Hanumantha Rao
Devil’s Advocate: The Untold Story,
by Karan Thapar
In “Devil’s Advocate”, veteran
journalist Karan Thapar dives deep
into his life to come up with many
intriguing moments.
The book will feature stories of
lasting friendships and long
associations with Benazir
Bhutto, Aung San Suu Kyi, Rajiv
and Sanjay Gandhi, among others
The Generation of Rage in Kashmir, by David Devadas
(Oxford University Press)
In this book David Devadas, a
former political editor at Business
Standard, focuses on the rise of
militancy in Kashmir.
Release – August 2018
The Wind in My Hair: My Fight for Freedom in Modern Iran, by Masih Alinejad
This memoir is the extraordinary story of how
one woman, Masih Alinejad, an awe-inspiring
journalist and activist from a small village in
Iran, overcame enormous adversity to fight
for what she truly believed and founded a
major movement for women around the world
with the simple removal of her hijab.
Pakistan Adrift: Navigating Troubled Waters, by Asad Durrani
The author of this book, a former
spymaster of Pakistan’s Inter-Services
Intelligence (ISI), recently made headlines
after he teamed up with RAW’s A.S. Dulat
in a book of dialogues.
Latitudes of Longing, by Shubhangi Swarup
Beginning in the depths of the
Andaman Sea, and circling
through Burma and Nepal to end
amidst the highest glaciers and
passes of the Karakorams, the
story is said to sweep through
worlds and times inhabited by
unlikely but seemingly
convincing characters.
The Great Indian Nature Trail with Uncle Bikky: Rohan Chakravarty
Join Uncle Bikky, an
ornithologist, his niece Chunmun,
a wildlife photographer and their
dog, Duggu in their adventures in
this exciting new anthology from
WWF-India!
Vedvigyan Alok” (Maharishi Aitareya Mahidas Praneet –
Aitareya Brahmina ki Vaigyanik Vyakhya) authored by
Acharya Agnivarat Naishthik,
‘Honeycomb‘ By Ayan Gogoi Gohain
‘Youngest Author of India’ by India Book of
Records,
Home Fire By Kamila Shamsie
Kamila Shamsie has won the 2018
Women’s Prize for Fiction for her
seventh novel Home Fire
The award, previously known as
the Baileys Prize and Orange
Prize.
Home Fire, a reworking of
Sophocles’ Greek tragedy
Antigone, is about radicalisation
and family loyalties
The House of Islam: A Global History : By Ed Hussain
Lethal White By JK Rowling
JK Rowling’s Lethal White – the fourth instalment in the
Cormoran Strike novels, written under her pseudonym Robert
Galbraith – will be released on 18 September.
‘Winning Like Sourav: Think & Succeed Like Ganguly By Abhirup Bhattacharya