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Published : Nov 02, 2023 11:00 IST - 3 MINS READ The Song of The Sky Tree Nandita Basu Simon & Schuster India Rs. ___ Three Countries, Three Lives: A Doctor’s Story Lindy Rajan Cartner Aleph Book Company Rs.799 Lindy Rajan Cartner, a Tamil doctor who was born in Rangoon, grew up in British India and moved to the UK in the 1960s, looks back at her life’s journey in this memoir which offers an acute insight into life under the Raj, the racial prejudices of both British and Indian society, and the changing lives of women in this transformative period of history. ___ Food Journeys: Stories from the Heart Edited by Joel Rodrigues & Dolly Kikon Zubaan Rs.1,500 Feminist anthropologist Dolly Kikon and peace researcher Joel Rodrigues present a wide-ranging set of stories and essays accompanied by recipes that explore how food and eating allow us to find joy and strength while navigating a violent history of militarisation in north-eastern India. ___ Gender and Modernity in Kerala: Politics, Praxes, Paradoxes Meena T. Pillai Orient BlackSwan Rs.350 Engaging as it does with a range of questions including literary, cultural and digital discourses around women’s clothes, body, menstruation, education, vocation, writing, caste identities and everyday practices in Kerala, this volume of essays makes a compelling argument for re-reading India’s multiple modernities from the perspective of gender. Sean Michaels Astra House ___ Tremor Teju Cole Faber ___ Non-fiction Alfie and Me: What Owls Know, What Humans Believe Carl Safina Norton ___ Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution Cat Bohannon Knopf ___ Extremely Online: The Untold Story of Fame, Influence, and Power on the Internet Taylor Lorenz Simon & Schuster ___ Tupac Shakur: The Authorized Biography Staci Robinson Crown