Jamila Verghese
Newly-married women being tortured to death for the sake of dowry has become such a common event these days that it has almost ceased to shock. And here, in the routine appearance of small in.
Reviewed by: Anamika
Bimal Prasad
Nobody may dispute that Jayaprakash Narayan, popularly called JP, has been an important factor in Indian polity for about half a century. Starting as a Marxist (while a student in the United States of America!), he became a votary of non-violence under Gandhi’s influence and took part in the various satyagraha movements launched by the Mahatma for the country’s freedom.
Reviewed by: K.N. Sud
John Bryan Starr
Mao Zedong was the most dominant and towering actor in the long drama of the Chinese Revolution. His ability to interface the universals of Marxism-Leninism with the particularities of China created a profound organic relationship between the man and the event which he himself acknowledged.
Reviewed by: MIRA SINHA
Brij Mohan Kaushik and O.N. Mehrotra
A central vision illumines this book: Pakistan intends to assemble a nuclear arsenal, but does not have present capability to do so. Eventually it will. India should, therefore, devise a policy to keep its competition with Pakistan below the nuclear threshold.
Reviewed by: P.R. Chari
D. Rothermund, D.C. Wadhwa
While research on the Indian economy, both at the present time, as also in the colonial period, has tended to concentrate on the agrarian sector, relatively little work has been done on the relationship between the rural and urban worlds. The two volumes now under review offer a welcome change from this one-sided focus.
Reviewed by: Simon Commander
Abhijit Sengupta. Illustrated by Jagdish Joshi
One remembers reading a lot of Enid Blyton as a child, because there was little else in English. This was not the case with the regional languages. There were a number of children’s magazines in Bengali and Hindi, Chandamama, Parag, Suktara and Satyajit Ray’s Sandesh, to name a few.
Reviewed by: Purabi Banerjee