Who
will kill him?
Roopinder Singh
The Broker
by John Grisham. Arrow Books. Pages 467. £ 2.75 (special Indian
edition).
Gripping
tale of magnificent warrior
Parshotam Mehra
Tamerlane: Sword of Islam, Conqueror of the World
by Justin Marozzi. HarperCollins, London. Pages XXIV+449. £ 25.
Tribute to crusaders extraordinaire
Kanchan Mehta
Icons of Social Change
by Scharada Bail. Puffin Books, New Delhi. Pages 130. Rs 175.
Some
good answers to many questions
Jaswant Singh
The Vitality of India edited by Gopal Krishan.
Centre for Research in Rural and Industrial Development, Chandigarh.
Pages 366. Rs 795.
Dark
side of Soviet history
M. Rajivlochan
Gulag: A History of the Soviet
Camps
by Anne Applebaum. London: Allen Lane. Pages 610. £20.
Mission
statement
Shastri Ramachandaran
War and Peace: Armed Struggle
and Peace Efforts of Liberation Tigers.
by Anton Balasingham. Fairmax Publishing, England. Pages 514. Price £
15.
Bleak
snapshots
Gitanjali Sharma
Under an Indian sky
Ten years in a Bihar village By Janet Ganguli. Penguin Books. Pages 203.
Price Rs250
Magical
realism of Bollywood
The
timing could not be more opportune. In keeping with the rising
popularity of Hindi cinema abroad, a new book on film industry, Bollywood
Unplugged-Deconstructing Cinema in Black and White, has just been
released in Mumbai.
An
American original
Ron
McLarty has joined the ranks of writers of the quirky hero with The
Memory of Running. His hero, Smithy Ide, is in the grand tradition
of Ignatius J. Reilly of a Confederacy of Dunces and Quoyle of The
Shipping News.
The
case against free trade
Prakarsh Singh
Globalisation or Colonisation
short takes
Lyrical yearnings
Randeep Wadehra
Impressions
by Sheeba Singh. Unistar, Chandigarh. Pages: 96. Price: Rs 95.
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Poetic Musings
by Dr Jagdish Chandra
Sharma
Concept, N. Delhi. Pages: 64. Price: Rs 100.
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The Inner Chord
by Vibhuti Gupta
RRG Publications, Ambala Cantt.
Pages: 69. Price: Rs 75.
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