India: From Midnight to the Millennium
by Shashi Tharoor
Viking Penguin, New Delhi, 1997
A secular, liberal, urbane, globalised Indian fails to grasp India.
Silenced Rivers: The Ecology and Politics of Large Dams
by Patrick McCully
Zed Books, London, 1996
The book makes an overwhelming argument against dams; but it is equally possible to
The Year That Was
edited by Ishrat Firdousi
Bantu Prahashan, Dhaka, 1996
Truth destroys all rosy notions of what a remembered war should be. War becomes a time where the
Arundhati Roy’s 'The God of Small Things' exposes the limits of Western criticism that flattens Southasian literature into exoticism, moral lessons or comparisons to Rushdie – exposing, too, the gaps in understanding between Southasians themselves
Nostalgia, either for old-fashioned movie romance or for Michael Ondaatje's writing, has obscured the real tragedy of The English Patient: that it took an arresting, original story and
Environmental Politics
People´s Lives and Developmental Choices
by Sumi Krishna
Sage Publications, New Delhi, 1996
Writings on the theorisation of the relationship between environment and development, realistic or spiritualistic,
My South Block Years:
Memoirs of a Foreign Secretary
J.N. Dixit
UBS Publishers and Distributors, Delhi, 1996 INR 395, ISBN 81 7476 132 2
Indira Gandhi listened attentively as
