* From the slums of Mumbai to the red carpet treatment and back…Slumdog Millionaire child star Rubina Ali memoir Slumdog Dreaming will be published next month by Random House India. She will share royalties from her book with Medecins du Monde in India.
* Writer and English professor at Vassar University Amitava Kumar’s new book is coming out from Picador India’s stable in August , Not Everyone is Innocent: A Writer’s Report on the War on Terror. From the write-up, sounds like it tracks the underbelly of that war on terror…from the trial of Hemant Lakhani in the US, to the case of SAR Geelani right here in India, and goings-on at an Army camp in Srinagar.
* Interesting also, a photo-essay on women in Tihar jail by journalists Amba Batra Bakshi and Renuka Puri (Disclaimer alert: former colleagues with The Indian Express) And a new photo-essay type of book that tracks a personal journey is out from Westland/Tranquebar Press as well, set in Kolkata -- 57/8 by young writer Samira Gupta.
* And on another note, there’s a new Sex and the City type book out. ..Mercury in Retrograde, by a deputy editor at the New York Post, Paula Froelich.
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