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Author Archives: Thebookreviewindia

Rajeswari Sunder Rajan

Volume III No. 2 - SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 1978By ThebookreviewindiaAugust 23, 2017Leave a comment

ANITA Desai’s latest novel Fire on the Mountain is a distinct let-down. It has many of the qualities that marked her first book, Cry, the Peacock; spare­ness, toughness and fine descriptive writing. But while Cry, the Peacock came off, Fire on the Mountain does not; perhaps because, trying the same trick once too often, Anita Desai achieves sensationalism instead of shock.

Companion to Hindustani Music

Volume XXXVI No. 2 - FEBRUARY 2012By ThebookreviewindiaAugust 23, 2017Leave a comment

The latest offering from the indefatigable Joep Bor and his learned colleagues, this modestly titled volume should really have been called Companion to Hindustani Music. There are 25 essays cove-ring eight centuries from the thirteenth to the twentieth.

Heritage sans History

Volume XXXVI No. 2 - FEBRUARY 2012By ThebookreviewindiaAugust 23, 2017Leave a comment

In 1988, I had just been appointed the Chairman of the Sangeet Natak Akademi, and had finished chairing the first meeting of my Governing Council, when I was approached by a frail figure, grey-haired and bearded, clad, if I remember correctly, in saffron.

Probing Culture(s)

Volume XXXVI No. 2 - FEBRUARY 2012By ThebookreviewindiaAugust 23, 2017Leave a comment

The recent exhibitions in Delhi and Mumbai of the works of painters Amrit and Rabindra, popularly known as the Singh Twins, drew in many accolades especially for ‘taking Indian miniatures to a completely new level’ because of their ‘reflec-tions on contemporary life.

Bengali Ethos

Volume III No. 2 - SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 1978By ThebookreviewindiaAugust 23, 2017Leave a comment

The stories included in this Anthology of Modem Bengali Short Stories, sel­ected and translated by Enakshi Chatter­jee, range from ‘The Music Room’ by Tara Shankar Banerjee, published in 1934, to Kabita Sinha’s ‘The Strange Island’ and Baren Gangopadhyay’s ‘The Hand’, both published in 1966.

Local and Ontological Structures

UncategorizedBy ThebookreviewindiaAugust 23, 2017Leave a comment

The intellectual progenies of the enligh-tenment, the modern social science disciplines, have an arguably checkered posterity marked with junctures of scholarly rivalry for superiority. Each had to engage with the quest of a Darwin and a Newton.

Globalization is Good

Volume XXXVI No. 2 - FEBRUARY 2012By ThebookreviewindiaAugust 23, 2017Leave a comment

This is a provocative and refreshing book on the condition of the working class under globalization with special reference to India. If there is one thing that comes to mind after reading this book it is the last few words of the Communist Manifesto: ‘Workers of the world unite, you have nothing to lose but your chains’.

Corporate Interests/Public Policy

Volume XXXVI No. 2 - FEBRUARY 2012By ThebookreviewindiaAugust 23, 2017Leave a comment

As the world struggles to emerge from the economic crisis, the links between business and government are increa-singly relevant. Political analysts from the United States and Britain to India and China are increasingly focusing on the ways that corporate interests influence, even control, public policy.

The Military as an Institution

Volume XXXVI No. 2 - FEBRUARY 2012By ThebookreviewindiaAugust 23, 2017Leave a comment

The book written by Kaushik Roy offers an interesting take on the development of the Armed Forces as an institution, its nature and purposes and the formulation of theories as regards its functions.

Sport in a Broader Social Matrix

Volume XXXVI No. 2 - FEBRUARY 2012By ThebookreviewindiaAugust 23, 2017Leave a comment

We have seen Bengalis assembled on various occasions of danger, distress and sorrow, such as that of the Partition – Mohun Bagan has infused a new life intro the lifeless and cheerless Bengali – By your victory sport has been turned into a unifying force -(Basumati, 5 August 1911)

Socialist Thought and Nationalism

Volume XXXVI No. 2 - FEBRUARY 2012By ThebookreviewindiaAugust 23, 2017Leave a comment

The eminent historian Irfan Habib’s The National Movement: Studies in Ideology and History, seeks to grapple again with the classic question of the rela-tionship of socialist thought and nationalism.

In the Deconstructionist Mode

Volume XXXVI No. 2 - FEBRUARY 2012By ThebookreviewindiaAugust 23, 2017Leave a comment

North East India is mostly written about in connection with the politics of space and identity. Here is another one dealing with the same subject. But Sanghamitra Misra’s work is a book with a difference.

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