In that Mill, I too was forged: Poems

Narayan Gangaram Surve was brought up by mill workers but left to fend for himself once again at the age of 12 in the chawls of Mumbai. He eventually became a teacher and a celebrated revolutionary poet, with an abiding allegiance to the workers’ movement. Jerry Pinto renders a broad selection of Surve’s Marathi poetry into colourful yet effortless English verse.

Faking It by Toby Walsh. Speaking Tiger. Rs 499

Can AI systems ever be creative? Can they be moral? What can we do to ensure they are not harmful? In ‘Faking It’, Toby Walsh, a Professor of Artificial Intelligence at the University of New South Wales, Australia, explores all the ways AI fakes it, and what this means for humanity — now and in the future.

Where God Began by Appadurai Muttulingam. Translated by Kavitha Muralidharan. Westland. Rs 499

Suspecting his involvement with Tamil militants at the peak of Sri Lanka’s civil war, Nishant’s parents sell their land to pay for his illegal immigration to Canada. Thus begins his ordeal as he’s traded from one agent to another and smuggled across or sent back from many a border. ‘Where God Began’ is a powerful portrayal of the very human story behind watchwords like migration and refugee.