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The best of 2019 from a voracious and eclectic reader's bookshelf

Though the author of Hindutva, savarkar was "hardly a practicing Hindu in the religious sense"

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12 min read Last Updated : Jan 20 2020 | 11:13 PM IST

I tend to be rather eclectic in the books I read. So the ones I’m likely to recommend won’t just be varied and different but, possibly, surprising and, even, idiosyncratic. In a very real sense my eclecticism is enhanced — and not just made possible — by the fact that I get sent a lot of books to review or to interview their authors. I dip into many of them but read only a few.

One of the books that caught my fancy and which I spent a very happy weekend reading is Udayan Mukherjee’s second book. Let

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