Roland Barthes
INCIDENTS
2011
2011
Walking back home from Francois Mitterands lunch party on 25 February 1980, Roland Barthes was evidently a tad preoccupied.
Reviewed by: Salim Yusufji
T.N. Madan
The book is an outcome of a project initiated by UNESCO to undertake cross-cultural studies of doctors in the context of development and modernization.
Reviewed by: Aneeta Minocha
T.V. Rao
ADULT EDUCATION FOR SOCIAL CHANGE: A STUDY OF THE NATIONAL ADULT EDUCATION PROGRAMME IN RAJASTHAN
1980
1980
New trends in social science research indicate a major departure in the assessment of the role of the researcher or the investigator. The traditional role of the researcher as a detached and ‘neutral’ analyst, while it proved suitable to a certain extent to describe the world as it exists, hardly equipped him to work for changing it.
Reviewed by: A.K. Jalauddin
Abhisar Sharma
Works of fiction often bear the charge of blasphemy, creating thereby a tenuous relationship between the art of narrative fiction and the fatwas issued against it. What this establishes beyond reasonable doubt, besides the threat to the authors life, is the fearful ability of art to mould, shape and influence the real and tangible world out there…
Reviewed by: Simran Chadha
Kusum Budhwar
Scholars now widely recognize that folk literature is a rich source of information on popular culture of a society. Systematic collection and publication of folktales and folklores in India began in the 19th century.
Reviewed by: Dhirendra Datt Dangwal
Chitra Mudgal
AADI ANAADI
2011
2011
In reviewing this third volume of the three volume collection of short stories, one is immediately stuck by the importance of writing about the interiority of the economic. This more than anything, and rightly so, is an aspect of life that finds a stream of expression across the stories. And why should not the economic be represented…
Reviewed by: Prashant Gupta