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Author Archives: Thebookreviewindia

Social Exclusion and Educational Institutions in Contemporary India

Volume XXXV No. 7 - JULY 2011By ThebookreviewindiaSeptember 13, 2017Leave a comment

Andre Bteille is a prolific writer who has addressed questions of inequality, power, social class, the family, the disciplines of sociology and social anthro-pology, and a whole range of issues, too vast to enumerate here.

Wanderings in the World of Ideas

Volume XXXV No. 7 - JULY 2011By ThebookreviewindiaSeptember 13, 2017Leave a comment

Rajen Harshe is one of those rare individuals who through their lives have played many roles. He has been and will no doubt remain an activist, scholar, teacher and institution-builder. To get a better sense of what this book offers and why it has been written the way it has, knowing the background of the author matters.

The Pilgrims’ Progress

Volume XXXV No. 7 - JULY 2011By ThebookreviewindiaSeptember 13, 2017Leave a comment

A K.Ramanujans translation of vachanas came out from Penguin in 1973, nearly four decades ago. The present re-translation and re-look at the Virasaivite vachanas by H.S.Shivaprakash and its publication by Penguin is therefore most timely.

Fragments Of Roland Barthes

Volume XXXV No. 7 - JULY 2011By ThebookreviewindiaSeptember 13, 2017Leave a comment

Walking back home from Francois Mitterands lunch party on 25 February 1980, Roland Barthes was evidently a tad preoccupied.

Doctor’s Role in Development

Volume V No. 2 - SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 1980By ThebookreviewindiaSeptember 13, 2017Leave a comment

The book is an outcome of a project initiated by UNESCO to undertake cross­-cultural studies of doctors in the context of development and modernization.

Adult Education: Participatory Evaluation

Volume V No. 2 - SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 1980By ThebookreviewindiaSeptember 13, 2017Leave a comment

New trends in social science research indicate a major departure in the assess­ment of the role of the researcher or the investigator. The traditional role of the researcher as a detached and ‘neutral’ analyst, while it proved suitable to a cer­tain extent to describe the world as it exists, hardly equipped him to work for changing it.

Gory Realities

Volume XXXV No. 6 - JUNE 2011By ThebookreviewindiaSeptember 13, 2017Leave a comment

Works of fiction often bear the charge of blasphemy, creating thereby a tenuous relationship between the art of narrative fiction and the fatwas issued against it. What this establishes beyond reasonable doubt, besides the threat to the authors life, is the fearful ability of art to mould, shape and influence the real and tangible world out there.

Of Popular Culture and Society

Volume XXXV No. 6 - JUNE 2011By ThebookreviewindiaSeptember 13, 2017Leave a comment

Scholars now widely recognize that folk literature is a rich source of information on popular culture of a society. Systematic collection and publication of folktales and folklores in India began in the 19th century.

Glossing over Rural Crisis

Volume V No. 2 - SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 1980By ThebookreviewindiaSeptember 13, 2017Leave a comment

One fact about the book is that it is a revised version of the general secretary’s report to the 22nd national conference of the All-India Kisan Sabha (AIKS) held at Vijayawada in June last year.

Interiority of the ‘Economic’

Volume XXXV No. 6 - JUNE 2011By ThebookreviewindiaSeptember 13, 2017Leave a comment

In reviewing this third volume of the three volume collection of short stories, one is immediately stuck by the importance of writing about the interiority of the economic. This more than anything, and rightly so, is an aspect of life that finds a stream of expression across the stories.

Echoes of Romantic Voices

UncategorizedBy ThebookreviewindiaSeptember 13, 2017Leave a comment

This rendering by Abhay Tiwari of selections of Rumis verse in Hindi draws home to someone like this reviewer who reads writes thinks for the most in English buried echoes of romantic voices speaking/singing Hindustani from our childhood.

Offering Meaning to a City

Volume XXXV No. 6 - JUNE 2011By ThebookreviewindiaSeptember 13, 2017Leave a comment

Mumbai Fables by Gyan Prakash is as layered as the city it explores. Walter Benjamin mentions a collectors passion bordering on the chaos of memories. The collector for him was as much a part of as he was apart from the various texts that make memories.

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