M.P. Nayar and A.R.K. Sastry Botanical Survey of India IRs 160
The usefulness of this much-needed book on plants of India crosses international frontiers. The format is
Khcmanand Chandola Patriot Publishers IRs90
In this study, the author examines a variety of ancient, medieval and modern sources to advance a political claim for an Indian interest in Western
World-Watch
The first issue of this magazine, published by Worldwatch Institute of Washington DC, contains articles on AIDS in the Third World, the danger of future Chernobyls, and the increasing
In his celebrated treatise The Idea of Justice, Amartya Sen poses the predicament of justice through a story of three kids and a flute. Talented Anne says that the flute
Five Queen's Road
by Sorayya Khan
Penguin, 2009
Train to India: Memories of another Bengal
by Maloy Krishna Dhar
Penguin, 2009
Two new books touch upon the lesser-known
Two books present the dichotomy of Bhutan´s image - from one perspective, the progressive-though-traditional idyll, to another, the authoritarian-to-dictatorial regime.
If the metamorphosis of Mohandas Gandhi's Gujarat into a Hindutva laboratory was baffling to social scientists, Orissa's recent emergence as another communal hotspot has been no
Following in a long line of analysis, talk shows on television on several occasions over the past summer featured experts who made politically correct statements in favour of a series
Pilgrimage to Paradise:Sufi tales from Rumi
edited by Kamla K Kapur
Penguin, 2009
Rumi is undoubtedly one of the best-known of the Sufi masters. Even so, the public, for
Like most words that mean little but pretend to say a lot, secular was one that I did not encounter by accident. Its meaning, and the shadows of its connotations,
While Arundhati Roy’s collection of essays reveals critical political truths and the acts of violence India has witnessed, it also raises questions about the elite practice of literary catharsis and the motives behind activist writing
