MOTHER MARY COMES TO ME
Arundhati Roy
Penguin Random House India/Non-fiction
After her mother Mary's death in 2022, the writer Arundhati Roy described herself as "heart-smashed". The remarkable, brilliant woman with whom she shared a relationship far too complex to sum up in a few lines was gone forever. This prompted Roy to write her first-ever memoir, Mother Mary Comes to Me, about the lady she calls "my shelter and my storm".
WILD FICTIONS
Amitav Ghosh
HarperCollins India/ Non-fiction
His considerable powers as a novelist aside, Amitav Ghosh has also been an excellent essayist over the last couple of decades. The collection Wild Fictions brings together Ghosh's writings on literature, culture and history alongside his growing, highly influential corpus on environmentalism and climate change.
RISING SONS
Kavery Nambisan Penguin Random House India/Fiction
The acclaimed doctornovelist Kavery Nambisan (The Scent of Pepper, A Town Like Ours) returns with an engaging fable set in pre-independence India, in a little Karnataka village called Kesarugattu. The rules of caste, hygiene and matrimony are especially strict in this little hamlet, and they are observed in full by Devaraya, a devout Brahmin. However, the onset of the freedom struggle has his son in thrall to his nationalist heroes, even as Devaraya deals with the repercussions.
TUMHARI AUKAT KYA HAI
Piyush Mishra HarperCollins India/ Non-fiction
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