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The Incarcerations: Bhima Koregaon and the Search for Democracy in India
Author: Alpa Shah
Publisher: Harper Collins
Pages: 561
Price: Rs 699
Academics have an adversarial equation with journalism. If a journalist writes pompously, her editor may accuse her of being dense or academic. And if a scholar is too eloquent, her peers might call her flippant or journalistic. Having been in both camps, my all-time favourite is an academic who can write movingly without losing the rigour. Scholar-storyteller Alpa Shah has that rare quality. Her book is a lucid account of the struggles, life histories, and peculiar circumstances of victims of the state’s crackdown
