RaveNew York Journal of BooksFor her book, Vijayan traveled about 9000 miles in the subcontinent\'s borderlands to show how nation-states can wreak havoc on the people who live there ... While this courageous book is not about the coronavirus crisis gripping India, Midnight’s Borders is well-timed, providing valuable insights into the workings of that nation’s populist right-wing government, which has been led for the past seven years by a charismatic but hubristic and autocratic prime minister ... the stories it tells are powerful, necessary, and sometimes unbearably poignant.
