Welcome to this edition of The Hindu on Books Newsletter. However, as he writes in Preface 2023, the legal advisers of publishers found the manuscript to be of “high risk” with its “unyielding view of Narendra Modi’s regime” in Gujarat as Chief Minister. In 2001, Jaffrelot called Gujarat “a laboratory for Hindu nationalism” and in 2010, Howard Spodek called it …
Egyptian author and sociolinguist Reem Bassiouney recently won the Sheikh Zayed Book Award for Literature, for her book Al Halwani: The Fatimid Trilogy. Apart from her work in sociolinguistics, Bassiouney is also known for her fiction, which includes her historical novel, Al-Qata’i: The Ibn Tulun Trilogy translated from the Arabic by Roger Allen, and Sons of the People: The Mamluk …
