Leela Gandhi

This is the latest offering of the author, who is the John Hawkes Professor of English and Humanities at Brown University, and the founding co-editor of the journal Post-Colonial Studies. Postcolonial studies represent an academic branch of studies which debunk and challenge western interpretations of thought.


Reviewed by: T.C.A. Ranganathan
Shiv Kunal Verma

This is a well-written book and goes into some considerable detail on each of the major battles of the 1962 conflict between India and China in both the Eastern and Western Sectors. The narrative is riveting and supported by maps particularly of battles in the Eastern Sector as well as reproductions of photographs of many important personalities and events associated with the conflict culled from multiple sources.


Reviewed by: Jabin T. Jacob
J.K. Rowling

As redundant as publishing the screenplay for the latest film set in JK Rowling’s mersmerizing wizarding world is, the power of marketing is equally magical, such that every gullible fan has bought, ordered or stolen a copy of the screenplay of Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them.


Reviewed by: Zinnia Ray Chaudhuri
Ruskin Bond and Namita Gokhale

The first sighting of the High Himalayas is invariably an occasion of wonderment, often an epiphany. Himalaya tells us how Wolfgang Buscher found himself shouting with delight as the peaks unexpectedly revealed themselves;


Reviewed by: Govindan Nair
Martin Kampchen and Imre Banga. Editorial Adviser Uma Das Gupta

The 150th birth anniversary of Rabindranath Tagore in May 2011 generated so much of renewed interest in the writer and his work that every other day we now see the proliferation of Tagoreana in all possible literary and cultural forms.


Reviewed by: Somdatta Mandal
Sanjukta Dasgupta, Ramkumar Mukhopadhyay and Swati Ganguly

The 150th birth anniversary of Rabindranath Tagore in May 2011 generated so much of renewed interest in the writer and his work that every other day we now see the proliferation of Tagoreana in all possible literary and cultural forms.


Reviewed by: Somdatta Mandal