Anushka Ravishankar
JUST LIKE A BUG
2012
2012
Anushka Ravishankar has done it again. She effortless in style and is a very contemporary story teller. The illustrations by Shilo Suleiman complete this package.
Reviewed by: Arthi Anand Navaneeth
M.K. Gandhi
This is an annotated version of Gandhiji’s works, first published in 1932. This volume has been annotated by Lalita Zachariah who is a noted expert on Gandhiji’s works.
Reviewed by: T.C.A. Srinivasa Raghavan
Major General D.K. Palit
It is to Zulfikar Ali Bhutto that the credit for embarking Pakistan on a nuclear course goes. The idea of an Islamic Bomb was his and it was he who against much opposition, set up the Pakistan Institute of Nuclear Science and Technology and started negotiations for the Karachi Nuclear Power Plant.
Reviewed by: Lt. Gen. K.P. Candeth
Shakti Kak
Enslaved Innocence: Child Labour in South Asia examines the exploitation of children in India which has the largest number of child labour in the world today.
Reviewed by: Shantha Sinha
A.R. Desai
A volume such as this has been needed for a long time. It is true that the peasantry did not play such a crucial and spectacular role in modern Indian history as it has done in other parts of the world, and it is not surprising that India finds no mention in a book like Eric Wolf’s Peasant Wars of the Twentieth Century.
Reviewed by: S. Gopal
Bhawana Somaaya
Mother Maiden Mistress is an attempt to map women’s representation in cinema from 1950-2010. The contribution of women in the Indian film industry has received minimal attention. This is a much needed addition to the historical narrative of Indian cinema. The book is premised on the argument that no matter how the decades…
Reviewed by: Sarah R. Niazi