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Daily Archives: October 3, 2017

The Idea of Namdev: Reconstructing Memory

Volume XXXIV No. 12 - DECEMBER 2010By ThebookreviewindiaOctober 3, 2017Leave a comment

If one were to write a history of Namdev and trace the traditions that bear his name, how would one set about doing it? There is no historical record of his life and composition, either in court documents or in inscriptionsa fate he shares with most great bhaktas or devotional poetsaints of medieval and early modern India, North and South.

Dualist Indian Tradions

Volume XXXIV No. 12 - DECEMBER 2010By ThebookreviewindiaOctober 3, 2017Leave a comment

Max Weber spoke of man as a meaning making animalspinning constantly and being suspended in webs of meaning to make sense and give an orientation to the world that he lived in and wished to order.

An Overview of Harappan Civilization

Volume XXXIV No. 12 - DECEMBER 2010By ThebookreviewindiaOctober 3, 2017Leave a comment

The Harappan or Indus civilization is a subject where the amount of new data and analysis are constantly growing, and it is difficult to keep pace with both.

In the Words of a Shishya

Volume XXXIV No. 12 - DECEMBER 2010By ThebookreviewindiaOctober 3, 2017Leave a comment

The book under review written by an eminent artist with emotional appeal has twelve hapters with impressive photographs and lay-out and is not too unwieldy for capturing the salient features of the life of a colossus that Rukmini Devi was.

Gandhi on the Analytical Table

Volume XXXIV No. 12 - DECEMBER 2010By ThebookreviewindiaOctober 3, 2017Leave a comment

This slim book seems to be the outcome of a well-meaning attempt to understand thoroughly the communicative aspect of Gandhiji’s personality and politics.

Moral Imperatives of the Development Paradigm

Volume XXXIV No. 12 - DECEMBER 2010By ThebookreviewindiaOctober 3, 2017Leave a comment

Crooked Stalks is a powerful reminder, especially to those who believe otherwisedespite mounting evidence to the contrary, that development is not a codewritten computer programme.

Flakey

Volume XXXIV No. 11 - NOVEMBER 2010By ThebookreviewindiaOctober 3, 2017Leave a comment

A slim volume, you pick up the book imagining that it is contains short chicken-soup-ish love stories. It is however, an unfortunate compilation of unanchored thoughts.

Groping in the Dark

Volume XXXIV No. 11 - NOVEMBER 2010By ThebookreviewindiaOctober 3, 2017Leave a comment

Cynicism and hopelessness often tint our view of the political situation in our country and with news channels painting bleak pictures for us twenty-four hours a day, an almost existential sort of hopelessness tends to grip us from time to time.

Silly and Happy!

Volume XXXIV No. 11 - NOVEMBER 2010By ThebookreviewindiaOctober 3, 2017Leave a comment

Our bhasha oral traditions are replete with stories which have no purpose except to make children have a hearty laugh, be it about an old woman who scares away a tiger with loud farts or a daughter-in-law who outwits her mother-in-law in cunning but entertaining ways.

The Longest Wait

Volume XXXIV No. 11 - NOVEMBER 2010By ThebookreviewindiaOctober 3, 2017Leave a comment

The Peacock in the Chicken Run is part of the four novellas in the short fiction series launched by Tranquebar Press. Aimed at frequent commuters who travel light and love nothing more than a story while they wait to board, the protagonists of these series are often those who find themselves in transit.

Space Out

Volume XXXIV No. 11 - NOVEMBER 2010By ThebookreviewindiaOctober 3, 2017Leave a comment

If you are in the mood for an intergalactic adventure, the eleventh adventure in the Aditi series, Siril and The Spaceflower is a good read. When one of Jupiter’s moons, Eu, goes off orbit, it’s up to Siril the ant to convince his friends that she needs help! Siril is known for being rational, of course, but Beautiful Ele has her doubts.

Picture Perfect

Volume XXXIV No. 11 - NOVEMBER 2010By ThebookreviewindiaOctober 3, 2017Leave a comment

Small noses catch small colds. Big noses catch big colds.’ Such is the indisputable, childlike logic of Ashok Rajagopalan’s latest from Tulika—Gajapati Kulapati.

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