T.K. Mahadevan
T.K. Mahadevan, whose thoughts and writings have for many, many years revolved round Gandhiji, has now attempted an altogether ‘new kind of book’, which he calls an exercise in philosophical biography.
Reviewed by: K. Swaminathan
Ira Marvin Lapidus
I must admit to having agreed to review this book with a high degree of trepidation. How could a single volume hope to cover in 658 pages, so vast an area with all its dimensions, conflict and, most of all the variety and the depth of its impact on civilizations across the world? And yet, by this singular work Lapidus, Professor Emeritus of History at the University of California at Berkeley, has, in a book more compact, placed himself in the recording of Islamic history on a pedestal equivalent to Gibbon’s for that of Rome.
Reviewed by: Wajahat Habibullah
Marie-Caroline Saglio-Yatzimirsky
So much has been written about Mumbai’s Dharavi—the ‘slum’, the ‘city’, the ‘urban settlement’. Books, articles, feature films, documentaries—an idea of Dharavi has emerged through multiple sources.
Reviewed by: Kalpana Sharma
Amitava Mukherjee
If there is any one specific condition that belies the hype of the success of the new economy in India, then it is that of the state of food security.
Reviewed by: A.R. Vasavi
Wilfred Burchett and Derek Roebuck
In the spring and early summer of last year, British newspapers and television repeatedly covered the subject of the recruitment of mercenaries in the United Kingdom; but even if you were a regular reader or viewer, you could not always be certain of just what slant was being given to the subject.
Reviewed by: D.K. Palit
Veena Jha
India’s tentative economic miracle faces many hurdles, but one of the chief difficulties is sustaining the political impetus for reform.
Reviewed by: Chetan Ghate