Rizio Yohannan Raj
A Tale of Things Timeless is a tale of a life lived in pain and perishing. It does not begin from the beginning but from the end in an act of artful retrieval of a life lost in the process of living.
Reviewed by: Anisur Rahman
Vasanth Kannabiran
A Grief to Bury: Memories of Love, Work and Loss is a series of conversations with twelve Indian women who reflect upon the internal dynamics of their long enduring relationship with their spouses. They also share their individual coping strategies at the traumatic loss of their loved one, either suddenly or after a prolonged illness.
Reviewed by: Mala Pandurang
Kishalay Bhattacharjee
All journalists carry many notebooks, either literally or in their heads. That is because what they manage to bring out through their channels, whether print or television, is just the tip of the iceberg of the story.
Reviewed by: Amandeep Sandhu
Vikramaditya Prakash
The Architecture of Shivdatt Sharma by Vikramaditya Prakash is the first in a series planned to unravel the ‘story of Modernism’ in India.
Reviewed by: Aftab Jalia
James and Grace Lee Boggs
It was perhaps too much to hope that under this grandiose title, M.R.P. would publish material of serious historico-analytic worth. Be that as it may, the Boggs have merely offered the world yet another example of the populist moral science that characterizes much of American radicalism today…
Reviewed by: Dilip Simeon
Ernst Fischer. Translated by Peter & Betty Ross; introduction by John Berger
AN OPPOSING MAN
1976
1976
Ernst Fischer is best known to English-speaking readers for his brilliant study in Marxist aesthetics The Necessity of Art. This book, an autobiography covering the first forty-five years of his life, is concerned mainly with his political activities. But the book is much more than an autobiography…
Reviewed by: Nitin Desai