The Hindu on Books newsletter | first hindi novel in booker longlist, bio of JP and more
The HinduThis article forms a part of The Hindu on Books newsletter which brings you book reviews, reading recommendations, interviews with authors and more. In reviews, we read about women and their lives, with Shah Rukh Khan’s films and the 1991 reforms as starting points, a new biography of Jayaprakash Narayan, Pankaj Mishra’s new novel and more. It has a generous smattering of songs and dialogues from SRK’s movies, deploying his work as a literary tool to string together stories of women whose paths would otherwise never cross. Simply put, take any politician today, in any party, he will have a slice of JP in him.” Pankaj Mishra’s new novel in two decades, Run and Hide, is a memoir written by Arun, an IIT graduate who gave up corporate life to translate Hindi novels, and is addressed to Alia, an urban Muslim woman from a family of inherited wealth and liberal attitudes with whom he has recently had a relationship. She has written 200 poems in the last two years, “enough for a new collection”, writes Srilata as she reappraises her mother’s work.
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