Reviews

The violence that wears a halo

REVIEW: How Buddhist nationalism across South and Southeast Asia turned a religion associated with peace into an instrument of majoritarian power

Feb 18 • Nishad Sanzagiri

72 hours in the Pink City

Learning to see beyond monuments and milestones at Anantara Jewel Bagh, Jaipur

Jan 28 • Nishad Sanzagiri

An Empire built on sand

REVIEW: Scott Anderson’s unsparing portrait of the Shah of Iran, Cold War America, and a doomed partnership that mistook power for permanence

Aug 6, 2025 • Nishad Sanzagiri

He’s not deep, he’s just damaged

REVIEW: What Saiyaara gets wrong about masculinity, rage, and the fantasy of fixing broken men

Jul 30, 2025 • Nishad Sanzagiri

Memory made edible

REVIEW: Shahnaz Ahsan’s paean to food, family, and the fragments of belonging

Jul 16, 2025 • Nishad Sanzagiri

The borders that Empire left behind

REVIEW: Sam Dalrymple’s Shattered Lands traces five partitions that fractured South Asia

Jul 3, 2025 • Nishad Sanzagiri

How missionaries and modernists helped shape Hinduism

REVIEW: Manu Pillai’s new book charts four centuries of encounters between Hindu thought, colonial politics, and religious reform

Dec 10, 2024 • Nishad Sanzagiri

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