The Hindu on Books newsletter: Hisham Matar’s ‘friends’, Lara on Lara, Ajaz Ashraf on Bhima Koregaon and more
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The Hindu on Books newsletter: Hisham Matar’s ‘friends’, Lara on Lara, Ajaz Ashraf on Bhima Koregaon and more

The Hindu  

Welcome to this edition of The Hindu on Books Newsletter. The author manages to keep the reader in the proverbial shoes of Khaled as he is consumed by the idea of his only two friends turning into men of action while he watches from the sidelines, forever exiled.” In reviews, we read Ajaz Sharma’s reflections on the Bhima Koregaon violence of 2018 and its aftermath, a memoir on the Naipaul family, Brian Lara on his cricketing life in the West Indies and beyond and more. Books of the week In Bhima Koregaon: Challenging Caste, senior journalist Ajaz Ashraf relooks the events that led to the Bhima Koregaon violence on January 1, 2018. The Identity Project: The Unmaking of a Democracy is award-winning journalist Rahul Bhatia’s debut book of non-fiction, narrating the history of modern India. It probes how nationalist ideas of identity have driven civic unrest and shaped India’s politics for over a century, and raises questions about the Citizenship Amendment Act, the Aadhaar project, and notions of justice, history, and law.

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