Reviews & Musings

Namrata reviews Anirudh Kala’s Two and a Half Rivers (Niyogi Books, 2021) and talks how Kala explores trauma and the long-lasting impact it has on the mental health of an individual through this book justifiably well.  ISBN ‏ : ‎ 978-9391125202  Publisher ‏ : ‎ Niyogi Books Pvt. Ltd.  Release Date: October 2021  Price: INR 395/-  The Partition changed a lot of things in many ways. It had different impacts on people living in different states, the impact of which we are still dealing with even after more than seven decades. 

Rana Safvi is a passionate believer in India’s unique civilizational legacy and pluralistic culture which she documents through her writings, podcasts, and videos. She has published seven books so far on culture, history, and the monuments of India. These are Tales from the Quran and Hadith, The Delhi Trilogy: Where Stones Speak, The Forgotten Cities of Delhi, and Shahjahanabad: The Living City of Old Delhi. She has translated both the editions of Sir Syed Ahmad Khan’s seminal work on Delhi, Asar-us-Sanadid, Dastan-e-Ghadar, and four accounts of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Delhi from Urdu to English.  In her latest book A Saint, a Folk Tale and Other Stories (Rupa Publications, 2021), she talks about the long-forgotten monuments of India and the stories behind them. Travelling—it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller. Ibn Battuta Indian architecture offers one of the most glorious forms of built heritage anywhere in the world. India, with its geographical exp