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From
April 06, 2006
to April 12, 2006
Short
Stories
Anthology
of Short Stories: Arnad; pub. by
Vahini Book Trust (VBT) 1-9-286/3,
Vidyanagar,
Hyderabad-500044.
Rs. 150.
Social
Activist
Edited by Ballekere
Hanumathappa and Bhoopalam C.
Prabhakara; Pub. by Bhoopalam
Chandrashekarayya Memorial
Foundation, 2276, 22nd Cross,
Banashankari II Stage,
Bangalore-560070. Rs.
750.
Fiction
Anthology
Disguises: Indira
Parthasarathi; Kalaignan Pathippagam,
19, Kannadasan Salai, T. Nagar,
Chennai-
600017. Rs. 75.
Announcement
Authors and publishers are
welcome to send copies of their books
to The Hindu for review. While
every effort . . .
Soft
Talk With Karan
Collection of Thapar's weekly
newspaper columns on varied
subjects
A
Different Historical Trajectory
This concluding part of the
review focusses on Sanjay
Subrahmanyam's main contributions to a
better understanding of the
complex historical processes
Nepal
Beyond The Monarchy
After years of upheaval,
Nepal is on the brink of a major
political change. What will a country
of
citizens — and not subjects
— look like? Three books provide
some answers
Water
Conservation
T.M. Mukundan, Akash Ganga
Trust, D-15 Bay View Apartments,
Kalakshetra Colony, Besant Nagar,
Chennai 600090. Rs. 100
Oily
Skid Is Just Dangerously Around The
Corner
Chindia' will require increasingly high amounts of energy
for its growth, points out Stephen
Leeb in
The Coming Economic Collapse. As alternative energy,
biodiesel is well poised "to
enter both the
vocabulary and the fuel tanks," predicts Lyle . .
.
In
The Twilight Zone
It’s the realm of the unknown; it deals with the
supernatural world and its possible
influences, it’s a
quality hidden from our senses — it’s occult tradition
that has had a very special place in
the history
of social evolution both in the West . . .
How
To Write A Perfect Novel
First, many non-resident
Indians have taken to full-time
writing supplemented by teaching and
journalism.
The
Search For Independence
The politics of autonomy:
Indian experiences Edited by Ranabir
Samaddar, Sage, Rs 620
Seeking
A New Direction
The movement for women’s
liberation, writes Brenner, has passed
through various phases that have
been characterized by
extraordinary gains as well as
irreversible set backs.
Planet
Fetish
Dava Sobel’s prize-winning
bestseller, Longitude, was about the
18th-century clockmaker John
Harrison’s bid to save
lives at sea because of the inability
to determine an East-West
position.
Modern
Urban Preoccupations
Some interesting reads in
Kannada
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