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Author Archives: Thebookreviewindia

‘Reading, Being, Seeing’

Volume XXXIV No. 6 - JUNE 2010By ThebookreviewindiaSeptember 26, 2017Leave a comment

In her essay on ‘The Crafty Feeling’, Zadie Smith describes the craft of writing. It is a love-hate relationship that an author has with her work. A work desultorily begun can become something altogether different once the ‘middle’ stage is reached.

Between Birth and Death

Volume XXXIV No. 6 - JUNE 2010By ThebookreviewindiaSeptember 26, 2017Leave a comment

Kalpana Swaminathan is a surgeon writer, and the influence of her profession is evident in the choice of her themes in Venus Crossing: Twelve Stories in Transit.

Parroting Tales

Volume XXXIV No. 6 - JUNE 2010By ThebookreviewindiaSeptember 26, 2017Leave a comment

What a delightful collection of stories—all about women who take lovers, cuckold their husbands, have a great time and mostly, live to tell the tale. Or rather, in this case, have their tale told.

Gender and the Agrarian Landscape

Volume XXXIV No. 6 - JUNE 2010By ThebookreviewindiaSeptember 26, 2017Leave a comment

Examination of the rural women of India implicates lot of things the foremost among which is that we are covering an overwhelming majority of women in the country.

Towards Enlightened Humanism?

Volume XXXIV No. 6 - JUNE 2010By ThebookreviewindiaSeptember 26, 2017Leave a comment

The two authors undertook the study with a research grant awarded by the Achuta Menon Foundation and claim that theirs is a ‘disinterested’ (un-biased) perspective.

A Persistent Concern

Volume XXXIV No. 6 - JUNE 2010By ThebookreviewindiaSeptember 26, 2017Leave a comment

The book under review seeks to address an issue which has ever remained an area of great concern, how to improve the governance structure of the elementary education system in India.

The Issue of Language

Volume XXXIV No. 6 - JUNE 2010By ThebookreviewindiaSeptember 26, 2017Leave a comment

The issue of language has always drawn attention in social science debates on such diverse themes as culture, nationalism, nationality, education, and social mobility.

‘Safeguard the Global Commons’

Volume XXXIV No. 6 - JUNE 2010By ThebookreviewindiaSeptember 26, 2017Leave a comment

Vandana Shiva has been a powerful voice for the rights of the dispossessed in an era of unequal, elite-led globalization. She has long rooted for maintaining biodiversity, and has shown that a bottom up approach to sustainability and conservation is both desirable and possible.

Capitalism and Global Environment

Volume XXXIV No. 6 - JUNE 2010By ThebookreviewindiaSeptember 26, 2017Leave a comment

Author Randhir Singh rightly critiques capitalism as the root cause of today’s global environmental crisis in his exposition of the Marxist view on the subject.

Ecology and Society

Volume XXXIV No. 6 - JUNE 2010By ThebookreviewindiaSeptember 26, 2017Leave a comment

This volume is part of the series entitled A People’s History of India. It deals with the ecological history of India from pre-historic times to 1947.

The ‘City of Gold’ and Its China Connection

Volume XXXIV No. 6 - JUNE 2010By ThebookreviewindiaSeptember 26, 2017Leave a comment

Critics have complained about the incessant output of books on Bombay/Mumbai. Each book has, obviously, a story to tell. This ‘Maximum City’, which is the second most populated city in the world and the richest city in India today, was a sparsely-populated, sleepy hamlet of mud-houses till the mid-eighteenth century. But, by 1780s,

Non-western Perspectives

Volume XXXIV No. 6 - JUNE 2010By ThebookreviewindiaSeptember 26, 2017Leave a comment

This volume is among the genre of narratives of major events concerning the twentieth century that have appeared in the first decade of the new century, e.g.: William R. Keylor,

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