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FACE TO FACE Sounds of silence Though he has tried his hands at every genre, the short story is M.T. Vasudevan Nair's forte. 
EyecatchersFolk Music of the Himalayas, Mandira Ghosh, Shubhi Publications, p. 204, price not stated.
CLASSICS REVISITED Wandering Dubliners DIFFERENT REGISTERS Questioning the walls within and without WOMEN in Security, Conflict Management and Peace (WISCOMP), an organisation set up by the Foundation for Universal Responsibility of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, has in the past taken up many projects and brought out Perspective Papers. A special ... 
FIRST IMPRESSIONSWHEN Alexander McCall Smith created Precious Ramotswe as his central character in the series innocuously titled "The No1 Ladies Detective Agency", few expected much. But such was his manner of writing that Precious became a star. With an ... ENDAPAPER 
The tireless readerUMBERTO ECO isn't giving us the one thing we so badly want from him: a sequel to The Name of the Rose. Since Foucault's Pendulum, he hasn't given us anything as exciting as those erudite medieval mysteries that mixed low and ... WORDSPEAK A wide range of concerns THE issues that the readers had with "How Sikhs became Seeks", "Wordspeak", that appeared on August 7, has warranted this follow-up. Here are some e-mails that represent a wide variety of concerns and questions raised by readers about the word ...
CRITICISM 
New alignments in cultural identityStein's arguments are nuanced and complex and the liveliness of his transparent and often evocative prose makes the book accessible to the non-specialist reader as well. BIOGRAPHY How he lost it We have little personal evidence about Dyer... Collett compensates with well-researched reconstructions of the milieux. 
Square peg in a round holeSO much has been written about Indira Gandhi that not much can be expected from any new book on her. To be fair, Usha Bhagat — who worked for Mrs. G. in various capacities over three decades — concedes the point at the outset itself ... DRAMA Powerful indictment `Kirwant' moves inexorably from a grey beginning to a black end, marked "No Exit". Democracy revisited TO contest one's own formulations in public is no mean job; especially when they have been articulated forcefully. But, scholar-activist Rajni Kothari sets out to do just that in his monograph Rethinking Democracy. A tad disillusioned with ... Poetry anyone? With these two new collections, there is very little which celebrates the necessary visceral response that poetry requires. 
Discovery of Pakistan?The Indus Saga: From Pataliputra to Partition, Aitzaz Ahsan, Roli Books, Rs. 495. GIVEN the historical baggage that weighs the two nations down, Aitzaz Ahsan's The Indus Saga: From Pataliputra to Partition may just reinforce ... ART Signposts in an artistic journey Sinha's writing maintains a sensitive balance of technical and human-interest angles... MEDIA The war of images In Information War, Nancy Snow explains how U.S. propaganda efforts and clandestine operations have grown fast in the last few years. FICTION When rules break down The questions that Disorderly Women asks are older than the story. SOCIOLOGY Emerging perspectives Many of its chapters make valuable contributions to our knowledge, both about some important theoretical perspectives on social transformation and about some present-day transformative movements. THOMAS PANTHAM TRENDS Translation as reclamation It is boom time for translation in India. Two women in the publishing field give their views on the current scenario. CHILDREN'S WRITING A mug(gle)'s game? Children's writing in India is a confusing terrain of many debates and blame games. Follow the trail with HISTORY Retold, in a hurry Dharker was given three months to write the book, the deadline for the re-enactment of the Dandi march. That shows... PREVIEW
PUBLISHING A success story Penguin has just turned 70. To mark the occasion, it has brought out 70 pocket penguins, priced, you guessed it, at 70 pence each. |
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