Reviews – Summer 2014
Celluloid Man: Back to the Future
The new documentary Celluloid Man highlights the legacy of P. K. Nair and the debt the country owes this visionary.
Geography of Tongues by Shikha Malaviya
Shikha Malaviya’s first book is a collection of poems that awakens the reader’s sense of taste, offering poems about pineapple pastry, mashed bananas and milk, guava leaves, red chilis and pomegranates, strawberries and mangoes.
Paging Ms. Marvel: The Perks & Perils of Creating an Islamic Feminist Superhero
The new Ms. Marvel comic series offers its readers something exciting, progressive, and new. Kamala Khan, who later transforms into Ms. Marvel, is the first major South Asian superhero protagonist in the Marvel comic book–verse.