The Listicle
Recent book releases that should be on your reading list
A LIFE IN LAW
A LIFE IN LAW
The Constitution Is My Home
By Indira Jaising with Ritu Menon HARPERCOLLINS INDIA Rs 699 | 236 pages
In a series of conversations with publisher and writer Ritu Menon, Indira Jaising looks back at an illustrious career in law, recounting some of her landmark cases as well as causes she has espoused. These include Mary Roy’s uphill battle for equal inheritance, Rupan Deol Bajaj’s fight for justice against sexual harassment, Shayara Bano’s challenge to triple talaq, Jaising’s advocacy for Bhopal Gas Tragedy victims and much more.
FLUID STATE
Queer India Now
Edited by Dhamini Ratnam and Dhrubo Jyoti QUEER DIRECTIONS Rs 499 | 272 pages
Through personal reflections and testimonies, this intersectional anthology pieces together a portrait of the LGBTQIA+ community’s lived experience in India today. A joint effort between the Godrej DEI Lab and Westland, Queer India Now depicts experiences as disparate as a trans police officer’s struggles at work, a lesbian couple’s efforts to form a legal family and a gay man’s mixed adventures in clubbing.
HOW GREEN IS MY VALLEY
The Wild Heart Of India
By T.R. Shankar Raman WESTLAND Rs. 799 | 512 pages
From a leading scientist, whose research focuses on tropical forests and wildlife, comes an impassioned appeal to discover nature and its denizens not just in designated national parks but simply everywhere—including our urban balconies. This is a revised edition of the book, with five new essays.
MAJORITY RULES
Heartland Rising
By Javed Gaya CONTEXT Rs. 699 | 410 pages
What are the roots of India’s recent majoritarian turn? As per Javed Gaya, a Mumbai-based lawyer specialising in commercial arbitration law who has studied jurisprudence at Oxford University, the seeds were sowed during Partition itself. The book explores the weaponisation of history to India’s version of secularism, recent concerns around federalism, and more.
CHASING THE MONSOON
The Fragrance Of Rain
By Stephen Alter ALEPH BOOK COMPANY Rs 499 | 152 pages
Here’s a charming portrait of the Indian monsoon by one of our most gifted prose stylists. To his credit, Stephen Alter succeeds in giving us a deeply personal take on the subject, without straying from the brief.
—Compiled by Amit Dixit
