Bookshelf - November 2025
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Set against the tumult of the postwar period, Boats in a Storm centres the legal struggles of migrants in the aftermath of empire. Drawing on archival materials from India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, London and Singapore, it illustrates how they experienced citizenship, bureaucracy and decolonisation.
Context, Westland, Rs 699, 312 pages
This book is the concluding volume in a trilogy of feminist retellings of the Indian epics. Turning away from the constructed “civilisation” of Rama’s Ayodhya towards an ecocentric perspective, Volga centres the journey of the mythological character Sabari, an ascetic, focussing on her spiritual transformation and dissent.
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