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Volume XXXII No. 5 - MAY 2008By ThebookreviewindiaOctober 31, 2017Leave a comment

Aparna Sen, who is making a film based on the title story of Kunal Basu’s The Japanese Wife and Other Stories is lyrical about the story in her blurb on the cover. ‘It’s an improbable and hauntingly beautiful love story, almost surreal in its innocence. And I immediately knew that this was the film I had to make.’

Engaging with Life

Volume XXXII No. 5 - MAY 2008By ThebookreviewindiaOctober 31, 2017Leave a comment

Writers and literary works have never been in isolation to the dominant forces of their times. One of Kannada’s early playwrights, Adya Rangacharya (1904-84, popularly known as Sri Ranga) was no exception to this.

Women’s Hidden Worlds

Volume XXXII No. 5 - MAY 2008By ThebookreviewindiaOctober 31, 2017Leave a comment

The speaker of the above lines in the last story of this selection is someone who was forced by circumstances to murder her mother to rescue her from further indignities.

No Story Comes to an End

Volume XXXII No. 5 - MAY 2008By ThebookreviewindiaOctober 31, 2017Leave a comment

Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.

Foray into Tribal Hinterland

Volume XXXII No. 5 - MAY 2008By ThebookreviewindiaOctober 31, 2017Leave a comment

A formidable presence in contemporary Hindi literature, Bhagwandass Morwal has been hailed as the chronicler of Mewat, the land of his birth and nurture. Straddling Rajasthan, UP and Haryana, the region of Mewat, despite its unique cultural compositeness, lies on the socio-economic margins of India.

Differing Interpretations

Volume XXXII No. 5 - MAY 2008By ThebookreviewindiaOctober 31, 2017Leave a comment

The critique of globalization and the neo-liberal economy has, interestingly enough, become a major platform in an increasingly interdependent world, where writers and thinkers from different disciplines come together to discuss their commonalities and state their divergences.

Lending Schemes for the Poor

Volume XXXII No. 5 - MAY 2008By ThebookreviewindiaOctober 31, 2017Leave a comment

Prabhu Ghate provides a fascinating account of the Indian micro-finance scenario. For the non-initiated, the word micro-finance brings several very contradictory images to mind. One is that of Mohammad Yunus sharing the 2006 Noble Peace Prize with his creation, the Grameen Bank, the micro-finance organization in Bangladesh.

Dealing with Reality

Volume XXXII No. 5 - MAY 2008By ThebookreviewindiaOctober 31, 2017Leave a comment

Sunanda Sen, through her long career, has been writing extensively on questions related broadly to globalization, and in particular, on the intricacies of trade and financial flows and how these might impact the well-being of the working people, especially in the developing world.

Of What Has been and What Might Be

Volume XXXII No. 5 - MAY 2008By ThebookreviewindiaOctober 31, 2017Leave a comment

Half of this book tells the story of the heady years between 1987 and 2006 when Alan Greenspan was the Chairman of America’s Federal Reserve Board, known to the whole world as simply the Fed. The other half consists of musings about the future and is actually quite disappointing.

Perceptions of Christianity

Volume XXXII No. 5 - MAY 2008By ThebookreviewindiaOctober 31, 2017Leave a comment

The theme of the formation of Christian identities and the nature of its implications in politics during colonialism has been a much-neglected area in Indian history. Many reasons can be adduced for this neglect.

A Good Life

Volume XXXII No. 5 - MAY 2008By ThebookreviewindiaOctober 31, 2017Leave a comment

I enjoyed reading this book, though as local histories go, it is extremely dense and detailed. Missionary history is a specialist domain, because it chronicles 19th century lifeworlds, very far removed from present circumstances.

Economy and Society

Volume XXXII No. 5 - MAY 2008By ThebookreviewindiaOctober 31, 2017Leave a comment

Perhaps no period or region in Indian history is as well documented as the Mughal period. The practice of Mughal rulers of maintaining personal records and autobiographies, the encouragement given to contemporary historians to write official biographies and histories,

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