Pranab Bardhan, Samuel Bowles and Michael Wallerstein

The relationship between globalization and redistribution has been a major bone of contention in debates on globalization. The more enthusiastic advocates of globalization view global economic integration as a welcome high tide that will lift all the boats and bring significant economic gains to everyone across the globe; on the other hand,


Reviewed by: Praveen Jha
Alaknanda Patel

These volumes, appearing 17 years after he passed away, put together A.K. Dasgupta’s writings penned over a timespan of 62 years starting from 1929. They include books, monographs, articles, and reviews authored by him, reminiscences by and of him, and a biographical sketch of the author by the editor.


Reviewed by: Surajit Mazumdar
Liaquat Ahamed

This is one of the finest books that I, at any rate, have ever read. Nor have I come across anyone who has read it say anything else. It is superb not just in the way it has been written, but also in what it contains. Above all, it is absolutely unique in the angle from which it has come at the topic, the Great Depression of 1929–32.


Reviewed by: T.C.A. Srinivasa Raghavan
Qaisra Shahraz

At first glance, both the books under review appear to be slick Mills and Boons, the perception reinforced in no small measure by the titles.


Reviewed by: Malati Mathur
Khushwant Singh

Acollection of spiritual-religious hymns, translated from the vernacular in English always anticipates criticism and even dissatisfaction because the original is deemed sacred and by that rule evokes divinity and any attempt to translate is considered an academic exercise which precludes any spiritual insight.


Reviewed by: Surbhi Goel
Fahmida Riaz

Fahmida Riaz is a Pakistani feminist, a crusader for human rights and an iconoclast. Apart from being a well-known poet, short story writer and a novelist in Urdu, she has been closely associated with the women’s movement in Pakistan.


Reviewed by: Anjana Srivastava