Monika Varma

Monika Verma is at least prolific, if these two books, published within a year of each other and averaging over twenty-five poems are any indication. Some of the other poets considered here are even more so. That this is of no great importance should be evident…


Reviewed by: Vijay Tankha
G.C. Mandal and M.G. Ghosh

The reviewer doubly regrets his in­ordinate delay in preparing this note. For one thing, both books are to be wel­comed as examples of an increasing flow of responsible, illuminating, especially region-specific studies coming now from a broadening array of India’s applied social science institutions. This fanning out of good work among…


Reviewed by: John P. Lewis
Daya Krishna

This book is yet another contribution of Professor Daya Krishna to theoretical perspectives on social sciences. Daya Krishna takes up for treatment a much discussed and thrashed-out issue in political science—the concept of politi­cal development. This is a concept that has provided considerable stimulation to many social scientists to think and write…


Reviewed by: Ramashray Roy
Geeta Kapur

When, during the first half of this century, art surrendered to a revivalist ethos because a subject people had to cling to memories of past greatness to forget their current humiliation, art criticism mostly amounted to singing the greatness of the legend, poetry or epoch of which the paintings were illustrations…


Reviewed by: Krishna Chaitanya
Stanford M. Lyman and Marvin B. Scott

The thesis this book presents is based on Jaques’s speech in As You Like it, ‘All the world’s a stage’, which postulates the view that human beings in a social context are like actors in a play per­forming their parts, filling out their roles. ‘Otherwise put, reality is a drama, life is theatre, and the social world is in­herently dramatic’…


Reviewed by: R.W. Desai
Anthony Sampson

The international trade in arms has reached alarming proportions. Some $5 billion worth of military equipment has been transferred to Third World coun­tries each year during this decade. The trade is unlikely to reduce, since the fervent desire of the arms-producing countries to sell is matched by the eager­ness…


Reviewed by: P.R. Chari
Hiren Mukerjee

Hiren Mukerjee is a queer bird. I am tempted to use the phrase, with its P.G. Wodehouse flavour, because he might well have used it to describe himself. It suits his evocative, metaphorical, often devastatingly penetrating, if some­what dated, literary style. It also fits a personality who for 25 years…


Reviewed by: Ajit Bhattacharjea
B.N. Pandey

This fat book is really a rag-bag. It consists of the papers presented to a series of seminars held over two years, from 1972 to 1974, by the School of Oriental and African Studies in the University of London. The theme was leadership, but the word was interpreted so widely as to mean almost anything…


Reviewed by: S. Gopal
Irving Louis Horowitz

Ideology and Utopia in the United States in 1956-1976 represents the writ­ings of Irving Louis Horowitz over a period of twenty years. Consequently, topics discussed in the book range from the Politics of Assassination to the Revo­lution of Falling Expectations. It is true that the author has tried to give a sem­blance of organization…


Reviewed by: Ramashray Roy
K.V. Sundaram

This is a book by a professional as opposed to an armchair planner. The title of the book is suggestive, as is the beginning. ‘Two roads diverged in a wood and I took the one less travelled by’, (Frost), raising expectations that fresh insights would be provided regarding the future course of regional as also urban planning in India…


Reviewed by: T.C.A. Ranganathan
L.K. Jha

I have rarely been so impressed by a piece of writing on hard, practical, eco­nomic problems written in the language (as Mr. Jha puts it) of laymen, as by this little book, especially because there are some major items over which I disagree with the author. Mr. Jha has been in the centre of things for well over two de­cades now…


Reviewed by: Badal Mukherjee
Charan D. Wadhwa

‘The emphasis in choosing the read­ings in this volume has been on articles using the tools of analytical economics to deal with problems which have policy implications and articles which deal directly with the appraisal of economic policies adopted by the Government of India during the years of planned economic development…


Reviewed by: G. Jagatpati