The perplexity of Ram Sharan Mahat is palpable. He did everything according to the book of the Washington Consensus, and religiously followed every prescription of IMF-World Bank. The results weren&
A fine memoir of a wronged man who refuses to go for the jugular.
Scepticism and rationalism brought India/Southasia till here, and will take us into the future, says the Nobel laureate.
Indians, and some Pakistanis, rave about a piece of pure fiction, willing to believe it as fact.
The Nobel laureate rails against failed revolutionaries in India and then, perhaps in the interest of fairness, strikes a few blows at England's working class.
Taking on the postcolonial postmodernists and reinstating the Enlightenment
Himalayan Waters: Promise and Potential. Problems and Politics
by Shim Subba,
Panos South Asia, 2001
This is an excellent and beautifully illustrated handbook on everything anyone may want to know
Slumming India: A Chronicle of Slums and Their Saviours
by Gita Dewan Verma
Penguin Books India, 2002, New Delhi, paperback, pp xxiv + 183, INR 200;
ISBN 0-14-302875-8
"What are
The Anthropology of Buddhism and Hinduism: Weberian Themes
by David Gellner
OUP, New Delhi, 2001
INR 645, pp 397
A Corner of a Foreign Field: The Indian History of a British Sport
by Ramachandra Guha
Picador, New Delhi, 2002
INR 495, pp xvt+496
