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From May 31, 2007 to June 06, 2007
Ten Ways That China And India Will
(And Won't) Change The World
That China and India will provide huge
market opportunities, but remain
relatively poor is one of several
pairs of contradictions that form the
substance of David Smith's The Dragon
and the Elephant.
The Fear And Loathing
Nobody knows how many died during
Partition violence; G.D. Khosla, a
civil servant, estimates the death
toll at half a million.
Anatomy Of A Raj
A historical return to the anatomical
parts last encountered in Intermediate
Biology, now attached to heroic
figures from India's colonial past.
Pass The Rice Gruel
The protagonist of Visvanathan’s new
novella is Mary Magdalene, 17 years
old when we meet her.
Short Stories
One sees a full gamut of emotions of
life situations, which are beyond
mundane realities in the stories of
Kasibhatla Venugopal.
Anthology Of Essays
With A number of titles, covering a
variety of subjects from travelogues
to treatises, under his name, M. P.
Veerendrakumar is one of the most
prolific writers in Malayalam today.
Essays On Wildlife
This work is a collection of 32
popular essays on wildlife, domestic
animals and environmental topics which
have appeared over the last few years
in magazines and newspapers.
Champion Of Freedom
Krishna Menon's role during a crucial
period of the freedom struggle.
Classic For All Times
The immortal classic, the Bhagavad
Gita, forms a triad with the
Upanishads and the Brahma Sutras,
collectively called "Prasthana traya",
but is more popular and universally
known across the globe, than the other
two.
Musings Of Veerasaiva Mystics
Ever since S. S. Basawanal and K.R.
Srinivasa Iyengar published Musings of
Basava in 1940, the Kannada
Vachanakaras are being presented in
the English language off and on with
varying degrees of success.
Straddling Two Worlds
In this book,
Calcutta:
Repossessing the City, Leena Kejriwal
has used this trait of photography to
reclaim her city, to hold on to the
"innate, quirky resilience" of
Calcutta, while showing the "new
layers" of Kolkata.
Managing Water Resources
Water is a leading policy issue in the
21st Century. Conflicts over water are
a grim reality today.
True Stories Made Up
Manjushree Thapa’s achingly elegant
memoir-cum-history Forget Kathmandu:
An Elegy for Democracy was published
during a particularly dark time for
her country, Nepal.
The Night Before
This is the 13th book by the
celebrated writer Ian McEwan and it
has already been short listed for the
Judges’ list for the 2007 Man Booker
International Prize.
Power Play
...it is not just conservative forces,
sordid power games and personality
cults which sabotage political and
legal institutions and bring down
secular leaders within oil-rich or
strategically important Islamic
countries.
What Ails Our Steel Body
The problem with Indian bureaucracy is
systemic. We have kept a number of
features of the elitist,
control-oriented civil service of the
colonial era, writes Har Swarup Singh.
When Wood Is Lost For Trees
The editor of the beautifully
illustrated book under review is also
the general editor of all Marg
publications and held in the highest
esteem for his erudition and
acknowledged authority on the arts and
cultures of the subcontinent and the
Himalayan . .
Optimism Amid Grim Realities
The purpose of this book, by Bimal
Jalan, is not to praise India's
democratic achievements or its
economic progress, but to remind
ourselves that neither democracy nor
economic resurgence can be taken for
granted, writes MV Kamath.
Simply Single
Bhaichand Patel would rather have
called this collection of essays
‘love, lust and loose living.’
Inward Looking
The characters in this book are caught
up in their own introspections and
their stories get lost in a maze of
words.
Straight Shooting With The Fm
I am one of P Chidambaram’s fans but
not for all the usual reasons. I like
him for his loftiness bordering on
arrogance, for the total cool he
displays when he addresses Parliament
even when the Opposition is at its
heckling worst, and for the
confidence,
The Red Tsar And Poetry
As a teenager, Stalin had a surprising
talent for romantic poetry. Simon
Sebag Montefiore wonders how the
youthful scribbler became such a
ruthless tyrant.
Pitching For Reality
Author Paro Anand on taboos in
children’s literature.
The Novel Drift
Gone are the days when IITs and IIMs
figured only in ‘how to crack it’
books. Today fictions are being set in
these prestigious institutes.
The Poetry Of Earth Is Never Dead
Arunima Choudhury’s Khela: New works
on paper, canvas and enamel (Seagull
Arts & Media Resource Centre, until
June 12) brings together a remarkable
range of styles, processes and
creative modes.
Revival Trail
Living in nostalgia is one of the bad
habits of Bengali artists, but
Kathakriti’s revival of Mohit
Chattopadhyay’s Chandraloke Agnikanda
has a more substantial purpose — to
prove the play’s contemporary
relevance on its 40th anniversary.
Brimming With New Ideas
Padatik Dance Centre plays a
significant role in nurturing young
talents in kathak under the training
of Chetna Jalan and some other senior
exponents.
Time Past And Present
Gallery Kolkata’s first exhibition,
Modern to Contemporary, which
concluded on May 27, included works by
some of the major names in Indian art.
The Backroom Boys
It isn’t just software engineers who
have made it big, but the backroom
boys of Indian publishing have done it
as well, if not better.
Deep Structure Of Meaning
Organizing Empire: Individualism,
collective agency and India By Purnima
Bose, Zubaan, Rs 495,
Up Against A Stateless Army
September 11 caused a conceptual shift
among the American security analysts.
The
US
political and military elite, oozing
confidence in the wake of victory in
the first Gulf War, was shocked by the
attack on the
World Trade Center.
Between Poetry And Painting
Indian art treasures (Jnana-Pravaha
and Mosaic, price not mentioned) is a
beautifully produced and curated book,
possibly of unmentionable
expensiveness, that catalogues the
Suresh Neotia collection, most of
which is now kept in the Jnana-Pravaha
. . .
Closer To The Soil
Some interesting Kannada reads… Desi
Jeevana Paddhati by Prasanna Ontidani
Prakashana, Rs. 100 Desi (local)
lifestyle has two key features: it
blossoms within the limits of its
environment and evolves at a natural
pace.
Printpick
It is the 1930s and the fire of the
freedom movement from distant Bengal
and Delhi is warming the languid bones
of the small town in
Mysore,
where Kaveri and Setu grow up.
No Longer Taxing!
An income tax guide might just be what
is needed for all those harried
individuals at the close of a
financial year.
Costumes As Skin
Beetle wings dazzle between gold
threads in a turban band. Genuine
peacock feathers are used to embellish
the plume of an embroidered peacock.
The Novel Drift
Gone are the days when IITs and IIMs
figured only in ‘how to crack it’
books. Today fictions are being set in
these prestigious institutes.
Our Costumes
Beetle wings dazzle between gold
threads in a turban band. Genuine
peacock feathers are used to embellish
the plume of an embroidered peacock.
A Milestone For Ranga Shankara
Ranga Shankara’s production of Girish
Karnad’s “Odakalu Bimba” is scheduled
for its 25th show this month.
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