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Activists
beyond borders
Shelley Walia
We are Everywhere: The Irresistible Rise of Global Anti-capitalism
edited by Notes From Nowhere. Verso, London.
Pages 527. £10.99.
Globalization/Anti-Globalization
by David Held and Anthony McGrew. Polity,
Oxford. Pages 158. £12.99.
Quest
for a better life
Shastri Ramachandaran
Sri Lankan Society in an Era of Globalisation
Edited by S H Hasbullah and Barrie M Morrison. Sage. Pages 296. Rs 560
History
is often over-simplified
Upinder Singh has written
well-received books on history, a subject that she teaches at St.
Stephen’s College, Delhi. Her latest book, The Discovery of Ancient
India: Early Archaeologists and the Beginnings of Archaeology, has
recently been released by Permanent Black. She spoke to Roopinder
Singh, about bringing alive the 19th century archaeologists and
recreating their dynamics, as well as what she expects from the book.
Canvas
of the familiar
Archana Shastri
My Brush With Art: An Anthology of
Contemporary Indian Art
by Lakshmi Lal. Rupa. Pages
164. Rs 495.
Ruskin
bonds with poetry
Aradhika Sekhon
A Little Night Music
by Ruskin Bond. Rupa. Pages
54. Rs.150.
Hard-hitting
satire
Lalit Mohan
Bull’s Eye!
by Rajinder Puri. Hope India Publications,
Gurgaon. Pages 328. Rs 495.
In
the footsteps of Hieun Tsang
Kamaldeep Toor
Ten Thousand Miles Without a
Cloud
by Sun Shuyn. Harper Perennial, Hammersmith. Pages 478. £7.99.
Uprisings
revisited
Kavita Soni-Sharma
Peasant Movements In Post
Colonial India
by Debal K SinghaRoy. New Delhi: Sage. Pages
275. Rs 295.
punjabi
review
Not
quite a dirty old man
Shalini Rawat
Mauj Mela
by Khushwant Singh. Translated by Amarjit
Singh Deepak. Lokgeet Parkashan, Chandigarh.
Pages 446. Rs 250.
Short
takes
Multi-hued
nuggets
Randeep Wadehra
Selected Gujarati Short Stories; Selected Malayalam Short Stories;
Selected Punjabi Short Stories; Selected Tamil Short Stories.
Edited by Rajendra Awasthy. Fusion Books. Pages 143, 172, 134, 177.
respectively. Rs 95 each.
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