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From May 10, 2007 to May 16, 2007
In Today's Global Competition,
Government Is The Key
An understanding of government
policies across the world is a must
for business managers keen on knowing
their competition, evaluating
cross-border expansion, weighing risks
of FDI, and anticipating exchange
risks, says How Countries Compete,
ruing . . .
Philosophical Discussion
Tamil translation by A. Siva Rao of
the Hindi original by Swami Nischala
Das; pub. by Sri Vasudeva Brahmendra
Saraswati Swamigal Library Committee,
88, Pattamangalam Street,
Mayiladuthurai-609001.. Price not
mentioned.
Ballads On Maravar Community
This work is an ethnographical study
on the Maravar community of Tamil Nadu
which is traced back to the period of
Pandya Kingdom.
Overcoming Domestic Violence
This book, though autobiographical in
nature, reveals the rot that afflicts
South Asian communities.
Reminder Of Unity In Diversity
What is it that has made Indian
culture endure through millennia of
internal changes and external
aggressions?
Reconstructing The Heritage City
How would one rebuild a beautifully
crafted city after a devastation?
India's Military History
A randomly selected events from the
arrival of the East India Company to
present day.
A Few Chapters From Follywood
Uninspired, unoriginal, sans cogent
argument, this is anything but a
comprehensive history of Bollywood.
Thereby Hangs A Tale
In September 1928, the Hindustan
Socialist Republican Army was born in
the ruins of
Delhi’s Ferozeshah Kotla.
Tolkien, Q.E.D.?
For once, the paltry space Outlook
grants its reviewers does not seem
like a personal slight.
And Thereby Hangs A Tail
Go wild and explore the great outdoors
with some irresistibly funny people
who write on Nature.
Whose English Is It?
A tête-À-tête with author Jyoti Sanyal
on his latest book.
History As Our Story
As Ramachandra Guha’s latest book hits
the stands, he shares a glimpse of the
wonder that is the Indian experiment,
and the glory that is our unnatural
nation.
Authors' Secrets
Books on two dissimilar personalities,
who had little in common except that
they both altered history and were men
of heroic proportions.
Rationalising Imperial Conquest
The book is a devastating critique of
the U.S. Empire-building project and
its principal rationalisations.
Man Of Integrity
A fair appraisal of Archibald Wavell,
who as Viceroy did his best to
preserve India's unity.
Housing Catastrophe
The author brings us face to face with
the consequences of decisions taken by
those far removed from the stench and
struggle of slum reality.
Past Perfect
As Ramachandra Guha’s latest book hits
the stands, he shares a glimpse of the
wonder that is the Indian experiment.
What’s Cooking
Gourmet-writer Tarla Dalal on her
past, present and future.
Fresh Print
The day-to-day lives of ordinary women
is what this collection of short
stories explore.
Those Elder Days
Thirty-four years after Tolkien’s
death, here is a new book, put
together and edited by his son and
literary executor Christopher Tolkien,
that brings us a bleak story of evil
and heroism set in the Elder Days.
Seven-Year Novels
It’s past
noon and the temperature hovers around 42 degree Celsius.
Pakistani writer Mohsin Hamid has just
spent his first three hours in
Delhi — in India, in fact —
registering at a police station.
Ever Green
When I first met Anil Agarwal in his
office in the early ’90s, there were
these bottles containing a brown
liquid.
People's Voice In People's Language
Hindi language newspapers are
witnessing revolutionary changes -
mostly good with a few bad apples.
Much Awaited And Deserved
It is an unusual book. A meticulously
kept diary transforming into a story
with glimpses of history.
Gestures Of Greatness
Type "Books on Mahatma Gandhi" on an
Internet search engine and the
response throws up no less than
1,500,000 sites! It's anybody's guess
how many books there might be on offer
at each site.
Uk Historian Pens New Book On 1857
A new book by a British academic
offering a fresh alternative to
popular accounts of the 1857 war of
independence is just out.
Man Behind The Aura
He claims to be just an “ordinary
monk” — a Nobel Peace Prize and
unending comparisons to Mahatma Gandhi
are just a few indicators to the
contrary.
When Barbed Wires Bristled And
Soldiers Paced The Land
Cross-currents of communal
intolerance, along with the
compulsions and consequences of
religious fanaticism, find their place
in Anita Rau Badami’s Can You hear the
Nightbird Call?
Lost In A Tangle
D.B.C. Pierre’s Ludmila’s Broken
English is, well, written in broken
English. Perhaps this is exactly what
the author intended, since his novel
claims to be set in “post-modern”,
translated as “post-post-f*****g-post”
(whatever that means), times.
Two Of A Kind
This is a fine book, which is both
scholarly and readable. It offers more
than one dimension in its purview.
The City Of Many Parts
Bengalooru did not become
Bangalore
with a bang. After turning into
“bruhat” it is now being renamed as
Bengalooru!
No One Belongs To The Bordello
In his Introduction to this
translation, Khushwant Singh quotes
Khurshid Afsar Bisrani:
The Earth Is Split
A lucid, unerringly balanced and
engaging short work that adds
substantially to writings on Indo-Pak
relations.
On Manhood
A timely book that deserves to succeed
and help establish the ground rules
for understanding masculinity in its
various forms.
Do Accounting Standards Apply To Npos?
It is not unusual to find fixed assets
recorded at a nominal amount of Re 1
in the balance-sheets of NPOs
(not-for-profit organisations).
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