M.R. Biju
With the dawn of an era of liberalization and globalization in India, rural and urban development cannot be strictly compartmentalized.
Reviewed by: Manmohan Singh Gill
Rajeev Malhotra
Kaushik Basu who has written the foreword for the book says ‘Taking advantage of this (2011) being the Golden Jubilee Year of the IES (Indian Economic Service), it was decided to bring out a book written entirely by the officers of the service.’
Reviewed by: Arnab Bose
Craig Baxter
Craig Jeffrey’s book can be summed up in one equation: Unemployed Jat students of Meerut in limbo—political activism.
Reviewed by: Vasundhara Sirnate
C.H. Hanumantha Rao
Technological progress has taken very diverse forms in different environmental conditions and periods of history, so diverse that it has sometimes not even been recognized as such when viewed through unfamiliar eyes. ‘No Chinese peasant’, commented Victor Hugo, ‘goes to the city without carrying back…
Reviewed by: K.N. Raj
Giorgio Riello & Prasannan Parthasarathi
Velli midi palagai vengalathal nadavum Alli midi midikka adainjavanur vun- mamam. Saliya weavers in south India today still sing of forefathers that wove on looms of silver and ropes of bronze.
Reviewed by: Lalima Varma
Kokila Rangachari
Given that the flag of Indian enterprise has not been fluttering of late, this book should help boost the morale of Indian business and its elan at home and around the world.
Reviewed by: Sanjaya Baru