By Abhishek Choudhary
There are very few political leaders in India whose initiation and evolution in the country’s political life would lead to an understanding not merely of the leader
Reviewed by: Ajay K Mehra
Edited by R. Ramakumar
Productivity. Input costs. Support Price. Policies.Investment.Risk. Capital. Market.Insurance.Credit. These have been and continue to be the key lexicons with which India’s agriculture and its economics are articulated and represented. This volume, a collection of essays from varied authors
Reviewed by: AR Vasavi
By Leela Fernandes
Chennai saw the flood of the century in 2015, which claimed more than five hundred lives. Four years later, the city hit ‘day zero’, where all the city’s reservoirs dried, and 11.2 million residents had no water.
Reviewed by: Lipika Ravichandran
By Vivek Mohan Dubey
The book opens with an introduction that discusses the theoretical underpinnings and contestation about cultural globalization and whether it tends to erode the identities and culture of societies or not. Vivek Mohan Dubey starts the theoretical discussion with the ‘Traditional School of Thought’
Reviewed by: Mohammad Imtiyaz
Edited by Rahaab Allana
South Asia has arguably been the cradle of the visual from times immemorial. Story telling in picture form from fables to epics has a place in the history of the subcontinent. Painting, sculpture, printing, weaving, sketching are practices that the people have used continuously.
Reviewed by: Sohail Akbar
Edited by Ashok Vajpeyi. Essays by Yashodhara Dalmia, Roobina Karode, Ashvin E. Rajagopalan, Homi Bhabha, Gayatri Sinha, Ashok Vajpeyi
A full page, at the very beginning, carries an arresting photograph of Sayed Haider Raza. We see a young Raza, somewhere in the early 1950s, sitting with his hands clasped around his raised left knee, apparently photographed in that reflective moment, with a painted canvas on the easel.
Reviewed by: Nuzhat Kazmi