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Author Archives: Thebookreviewindia

Migrant Labour in Urban Setting

Volume V No. 2 - SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 1980By ThebookreviewindiaSeptember 12, 2017Leave a comment

This is a well-researched and thought­-provoking analysis of the ‘informal sec­tor’ in urban Delhi: a segment of urban economy—which so far has attracted only the ‘cursory attention of demogra­phers and social scientists’.

Peace, Planning and Platitudes

Volume II No. 5 - SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER 1977By ThebookreviewindiaSeptember 12, 2017Leave a comment

Dr. Joshi, Chief Executive of Wal­chandnagar Industries Ltd., has written what could pass as an ethical base to the Janata blueprint of the sixth Five­-Year Plan. The reviewer chooses to so regard this work, for the treatment of the economic content in the planning pro­cess that the author seeks to address is rather flimsy.

Conversations on the ‘Boorha Binch

Volume XXXV No. 5 - MAY 2011By ThebookreviewindiaSeptember 12, 2017Leave a comment

I have known Khushwant Singh for over thirty years and continue retaining the membership of his inner circle; the group of friends that gather around him in the evenings at the now famous Sujan Singh apartments.

A Fringe Story

Volume XXXV No. 5 - MAY 2011By ThebookreviewindiaSeptember 12, 2017Leave a comment

I had been following Sonia Faleiros work with some interest for the last few years, particularly her series of reports about Mumbais bar dancers and their difficulties in the wake of the ban on dancing in bars (not applicable to fivestar hotels and nightclubs, of course).

Made Of Musical Bones

Volume XXXV No. 5 - MAY 2011By ThebookreviewindiaSeptember 12, 2017Leave a comment

Awanderer, a nomad, a traveller, constantly in search of an elusive musical victory. The sense one gets in Biddus book is all this and more.

Of Ordinary Lives/Ordinary Times

Volume XXXV No. 5 - MAY 2011By ThebookreviewindiaSeptember 12, 2017Leave a comment

I started reading Saraswati Park because it was shortlisted for a prize, which, as we know now, it didnt win.

A Life Well Lived

Volume XXXV No. 5 - MAY 2011By ThebookreviewindiaSeptember 12, 2017Leave a comment

Adorned with archival and visual material, A Masterful Spirit contains hitherto unseen gems related to the life of Indias premier nuclear scientist, Homi Jehangir Bhabha.

The Story of the ConscienceKeeper

Volume XXXV No. 5 - MAY 2011By ThebookreviewindiaSeptember 12, 2017Leave a comment

Fali S. Nariman is an eminent Senior Advocate of the Supreme Court of India with a legal career spanning six decades. Having come into practice immediately after the adoption of the Indian Constitution he has grown with it to be one of its foremost experts.

A Feisty Life

Volume XXXV No. 5 - MAY 2011By ThebookreviewindiaSeptember 12, 2017Leave a comment

In the summer of 1988, Jana Natya Manch, under Safdar Hashmis leadership, decided to return to proscenium theatre after a decade of doing only street theatre.

Religious Assertion and Conflict

Volume XXXV No. 5 - MAY 2011By ThebookreviewindiaSeptember 12, 2017Leave a comment

Religious Division and Social Conflict represents essays on the ethnographic study of the trajectory of Hindu nationalism in rural India in the context of the Mohanpur village of Chhatisgarh state.

Theology for Subaltern’s Emancipation

Volume XXXV No. 5 - MAY 2011By ThebookreviewindiaSeptember 12, 2017Leave a comment

This remarkable work is an intellectual attempt to analyse the experience of socially, culturally, economically and politically dominated and marginalized dalit and tribal Christians. Dalits and tribal Christians constitute approximately 70% of the Indian Christian population.

Where is the Party?

Volume XXXV No. 5 - MAY 2011By ThebookreviewindiaSeptember 12, 2017Leave a comment

In this ambitious and empirically rich study Sudha Pai attempts to make sense of the Congress Government policies in Madhya Pradesh (MP) towards dalits and tribals between 1993 and 2003. It draws insights from three fields of scholarship that Pai has distinguished herself in comparative politics, state politics and party politics in India,

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