Mary Tyler

Man’s cruelty to man is unbelievable. But believe one has to, when details come out one after another, of what people undergo in our prisons, where they are supposed to be reformed. After spend­ing ages in prison, they come out· hardened, their hearts darkened more than ever with evil…


Reviewed by: R. Sreekumar
Kishore Gandhi

Reorganization of the education system in India, admittedly inadequate to meet national needs that are constantly getting wider and more complex, has been dis­cussed for long, with many commissions, committees, seminars and conferences con­tributing their learned mite. The volumi­nous Kothari Commission…


Reviewed by: C.N. Chitta Ranjan
I.V. Blanberg

To an ordinary soul it seldom occurs to consider whether his kitchen is polluting the atmosphere or not. Suddenly scien­tists raised the alarm that the future of mankind is at stake. Indiscriminate indus­trialization, atomic wastes, deforestation…


Reviewed by: Kalidas Sikdar
Sachchidanand Sahai

In the last three decades when we have replaced the political-colonial order, our rhythms seek a new formamentis. While the liberated countries are undergoing far ­reaching changes of modernization, they reveal at agility and potential to develop creatively through multilinear processes in which tradition can be a component…


Reviewed by: Lokesh Chandra
Vassilis G. Vitsaxis

No two peoples have influenced men’s ideas and attitudes as much as the Indians and the Greeks have. Much of what is important in Christianity is derived from Greek philosophers, while the bulk of the population in South and East Asia, which accounts for nearly one-third of huma­nity, is sustained by beliefs that are Indian…


Reviewed by: J.P. Uniyal
Arshad Alam

In recent days there has been newspaper coverage of allegations on the part of leaders of the Barelvi denomination (maslak) of Sunni Muslims that their rival Deobandis in India are jihadis and ‘Wahhabis’, even terrorists…


Reviewed by: Barbara D. Metcalf