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From
July 13 , 2006
to July 19, 2006
Eyecatcher
In 2000, a group of ordinary people undertook an
extraordinary journey to one of the
most isolated parts of the world: Far
West Tibet. From Lhasa in the east,
they traveled west across the Tibetan
plateau on the forgotten Tasam
Highway.
Different
Faces Of Success
Despite the fact that most serious academic books are
commissioned, a large number of
unsolicited manuscripts turn up on a
variety of subjects.
A
Look Into The Anatomy Of Faith And Its
Dictates
Kiran Nagarkar’s
God’s Little Soldier reflects the
author’s bewilderment at cataclysmic
episodes of violence and their
frequent origins in religious bigotry.
The
Chalice Of Sports
Why was Lev Yashin
considered the finest of goal-tenders?
Why does Garrincha still evoke awe and
wonder?
Wonder-Kid
Pelé — at least, the
narratorial voice in The Autobiography
— oscillates between self-abnegation
and self-glorification.
Behind
Mirrored Images
Some interesting reads
in Kannada
Book
Release
You want to read poetry
in prose, catch hold of all those
nameless moments that quietly melted
into your mundane, middle class
existence, Jayant Kaikini, Kannada's
short story writer, traps them with
his remarkable pen.
Bookmark
In this, the second
part of the Inheritance trilogy,
Eragon is back with his dragon,
Saphira.
The
Lady With A Candid Camera
A scholarly coffee-tabler, meticulously tracing the
intrepid odyssey of India's first lady.
photojournalist.
A
Woman's Sight
Sen is praised as a
"feminist economist" but it
is not very clear what
"feminist" actually stands
for (except for a general concern with
gender issues) and why Sen qualifies.
A
Surface Encounter
There is a view,
forcefully articulated by a shrinking
band of ex-colonials in London’s
gentleman’s clubs, that Calcutta was
created and lovingly nurtured by the .
. .
When
Democracy Died...
The book is a personal
journal, recording the Emergency as
seen from an insider’s point of
view.
Of
Gandhian Ideals
...and human
relationships that have not really
changed much in their essence.
Classic
Stories From The ‘Pen’
This collection of
short stories by Yashpal is worth
reading and re-reading.
A
Crown Full Of Feathers!
The journal of Babur
provides an insight into the life of
an emperor and doubles as a record of
history from the hand that made it!
A
Surface Encounter
There is a view,
forcefully articulated by a shrinking
band of ex-colonials in London’s
gentleman’s clubs, that Calcutta was
created and lovingly nurtured by the .
. .
Short
Stories
The word, so holy, is an apt title for this collection of
stories from the physically and
socially battered womanhood from Sri
Lanka.
Educative
In Nature
This book is collection
of essays published in the popular
weekly "Andhra Jyothi" for
three full decades, starting from 1960
to 1990, under the same title "Illali
Mucchhatlu".
Thought-Provoking
Essays
All the 22 articles in
this volume are by those who lived in
20th Century India.
Print
Pick
Books at Fabmall.com,
new and old.
Overview
Of Global Economic Trends
This annual publication
of the U.N. gives a good analysis of
the current issues and trends in the
world economy. According to its latest
issue, global economic output has
grown at a moderate pace of 3 per cent
in 2005 and is projected to grow at .
. .
Treatise
On Gaudiya Vaishnavism
This book covers a wide
range of topics connected with
Chaitanya's philosophy namely, Gaudiya
Vaishnavism, besides the systems of
Ramanuja, Madhva, Nimbarka and
Vallabha.
Essays
On Gender Issues
A wonderful compilation
of Amartya Sen's work
Marx
On India Under The British
His essays in The New
York Daily Tribune thoroughly expose
the hypocrisy of "Free
Traders"
Biography
Of A Kathak Exponent
A rare biography today
that does not have the almost
mandatory kicker "authorised
biography". To narrate the story
of a living persona cannot be easy;
with the protagonist breathing down
the writer's neck, the tome could well
morph into a hagiography.
To
Stan, My Once Hero
An unsentimental portrait of life in a time and place that
is no more and written much in the
style of an elderly man penning
captions to the sepia-tinted pictures
in his mental album.
The
Cat Who Missed The Cream
Wish she had brought
her claws out. Instead the lady's
intellectual baggage weighs her book
down.
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