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Author Archives: Thebookreviewindia

Compendium of Richness

Volume XXXVII No. 1 - JANUARY 2013By ThebookreviewindiaJuly 17, 2017Leave a comment

Ganesh Prabhakar Pradhan (1922-2010) wrote the first draft of the book under review during a term of imprisonment of eighteen months during the Emergency in 1975 (he completed it in 1979).

A Socio-Linguistic Study

Volume XXXVII No. 1 - JANUARY 2013By ThebookreviewindiaJuly 15, 2017Leave a comment

The book reviewed here has the sub-title ‘Contributions to the History of the Sanskrit Language’.

Power of the Narrative

Volume XXXVII No. 1 - JANUARY 2013By ThebookreviewindiaJuly 15, 2017Leave a comment

Gathering together fifteen papers presented at a two-day international conference at Miranda House (University of Delhi) in January 2010,

Reflections on Different Approaches

Volume XXXVII No. 1 - JANUARY 2013By ThebookreviewindiaJuly 15, 2017Leave a comment

In relation to the Bhagavadgita, three extraordinary developments may be said to have occurred in British India.

Good-bye Tarzan

Volume I No. 1 - JANUARY - MARCH 1976By ThebookreviewindiaJuly 15, 2017Leave a comment

She was there all along, contributing half the genes to each succeeding generation. Most of the books forget about her for most of the time.

The Sage of Thiruvannamalai

Volume I No. 1 - JANUARY - MARCH 1976By ThebookreviewindiaJuly 15, 2017Leave a comment

It is not often that we come across a noble theme explained by a worthy writer in a lucid manner. This book definitely belongs to this rare category.

The Inscrutable East

Volume I No. 1 - JANUARY - MARCH 1976By ThebookreviewindiaJuly 15, 2017Leave a comment

Many of us have on occasion been dubious about the obsession in some circles to explain Indian culture entirely in terms of mysticism.

The Shadow of Neocolonialism

Volume I No. 1 - JANUARY - MARCH 1976By ThebookreviewindiaJuly 15, 2017Leave a comment

Barring a few general works dealing with the under-developed countries, the economic surveys by the United Nations commissions and old administrative reports by the erstwhile colonial governments.

The Fourth Round

Volume I No. 1 - JANUARY - MARCH 1976By ThebookreviewindiaJuly 15, 2017Leave a comment

Wars generate a spate of books on tactical doc­trine. Chaim Herzog’s book adds to the growing literature on the most important war in recent years.

Debating Indian Literature

Volume XXXVII No. 1 - JANUARY 2013By ThebookreviewindiaJuly 14, 2017Leave a comment

Whenever I think of Indian literature, a story retold by A.K.Ramanujan comes to mind: Hanuman reaches the nether-world in search of Rama’s ring that had disappeared through a hole.

Books-in-Brief

Volume XXXVIII No. 12 - DECEMBER 2014By ThebookreviewindiaJuly 14, 2017Leave a comment

A heart-wrenching account of a child who gets trapped in a flesh trade circle and her relentless struggle to get out of it, Prem Nagar is much more than a work of fiction.

Abounding in Imagery

Volume XXXVIII No. 12 - DECEMBER 2014By ThebookreviewindiaJuly 14, 2017Leave a comment

I am the dispensable primate
the blueprint of my promise
in irreparable shreds.

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