Memes for Mummyji
Santosh Desai
HarperCollins
Pp 400, Rs 699
Memes for Mummyji explores selfies, WhatsApp memes and what they reveal about modern love, politics and the invisible shifts in Indian life. With trademark wit, Santosh Desai shows how the humble mobile phone has transformed how we live, love and behave. A book about us—our quirks, freedoms and the cultural software beneath it all.
World Cup Fever
Simon Kuper
Hachette
Pp 256, Rs 699
Simon Kuper is one of the very few people to have attended every World Cup since 1990. In World Cup Fever he looks back at each tournament he’s experienced — from half-empty stands at Italia 90 to the French triumph as hosts in 1998, South Africa’s national dream in 2010 and the troubling legacy of Qatar 2022 — to reveal a captivating portrait of sport in a globalised world. World Cup Fever is the story of how the tournament touches and sometimes even changes
our lives.
Surviving Climate Anxiety
By Dr Thomas Doherty
Hachette
Pp 416, Rs 799
When Dr Thomas Doherty published his groundbreaking paper The Psychological Impacts of Global Climate Change over a decade ago, he predicted a perfect storm brewing for a mental health crisis of global proportions. And it has arrived. Today, we are more anxious than ever, seized by an impossible new source of mental anguish: climate change and the global environmental crisis. Doherty recognises
that this is a very real crisis
as well as an existential one.
CLIMATE CHANGE 2100: SURVIVE OR THRIVE?
By Chetan Singh Solanki
Penguin Random House
Pp 272, Rs 599
A book that confronts the defining crisis of our time with clarity, urgency and unflinching honesty. Released at a moment when the planet is groaning under record-breaking heat, rampant wildfires and catastrophic floods, this book cuts through political delays and technological optimism to highlight a truth often ignored: our lifestyles—not policies or innovation—are driving the climate emergency. Citing real events like Delhi’s 50.5°C heatwave, Europe’s 48°C summers and the floods that submerged a third of Pakistan, Solanki shows that climate collapse is already here.
Bread of Angels: A Memoir
Patti Smith
Bloomsbury
Pp 288 Rs 699
God whispers through a crease in the wallpaper, writes Patti Smith in this indelible account of her life as an artiste. A post-Second World War childhood unfolds in a condemned housing complex described
in Dickensian detail: consumptive children, vanishing neighbours, an infested rat house, and a beguiling book of Irish fairytales.
