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A difficult trade-off
Ash Narain Roy
World Trade Organisation: Implications for Indian Economy
P. K.
Vasudeva. Pearson Education, Delhi. Pages 530. Rs 599.
THE
neo-Liberals have made a god of market. The globalisation zealots are
never tired of chanting the market mantra that unhindered trade and the
resultant tide of prosperity would lift all boats. While it has taken
almost a century for the US to reduce tariffs, the developing world is
being asked to end protectionism overnight.
Ground
realities
Kanwalpreet
Punjab Today
Mandeep Singh
and Harvinder Kaur. Deep and Deep. Pages 292. Rs 480.
PUNJAB
is an important border state, and with an agricultural dominated
economy, it only retains its status. The industrial sector, which got a
late start, has gathered speed since the birth of the new Punjab in
1966. The authors say that their aim is to "study the problems of
development of the Punjab economy in detail" so that it can
focusing the attention of policy makers on ground realities.
The
hate triangle
Usha Bande
Religion, Power and Violence: Expression of Politics in Contemporary
Times
ed Ram Puniyani. Sage Publications, New Delhi. Pages 332. Rs 380.
IN
the mid-twentieth century when the UN was effective and the balance of
power was maintained, howsoever precariously (with the two superpowers
checking each other’s belligerent tendencies), the focus was on
socio-economic advancement of all nations. Unfortunately, that era seems
to be gone.
Magic
mirror and flying carpet
The Sisters Grimm: The Fairy-Tale
Detectives
by Michael Buckley. Illustrated by Peter Ferguson Abrams,
Harry N Inc. Pages 284. $ 14.
Children in the USA are reading the story of Sabrina and Daphne Grimm,
orphaned sisters who have been shuttled from terrible foster parent to
terrible foster parent until they land in the town of Ferryport Landing
with a strange woman who says she's their grandmother. This book is for
children 9-12.
Voicing
women’s concerns
Ambika Sharma
Sexuality, Gender and
Rights
eds Geetanjali Mishra and Radhika Chandiramani. Sage Publications. Pages
313. Rs 350.
THE
human rights of women have been a topic of debate the world over. The
right to make choices about sexuality, control over such rights and
related issues are voiced regularly at international forums.
Flakes
that warm your heart
Deepika Gurdev
Snow by Orhan Pamuk. Translated from Turkish
by Maureen Freely. Vintage
Books, a division of Random House. Pages 425. US $14.95.
ORHAN
Pamuk is a literary genius, a phenomenon, actually. His books have won
several awards. His sixth novel My Name is Red walked away with
the 2003 Impac Dublin Literary Award, his latest book Snow walked
away with the prestigious French Foreign Literature Prize, the Prix
Medicis this year.
Yogic
journey
Harsh Desai
Light on life
by B.K.S. Iyengar with John
Evans and Douglas Abrams Rodale
International Rs.495. Pages 270
FROM
his bestselling yoga book of all time, Light on Yoga, published
for the first time in 1966, after many rejections, to 18 books later his
new book Light on Life it has been a long journey for one of our
most prominent yoga gurus B.K.S. Iyengar. A journey which has not only
been fulfilling in that it has made yoga a household name in the West
and popular in India.
Crusade
like a song
Sara Wilson
High in the Clouds
by Paul McCartney (With Geoff Dunbar and Philip
Ardagh) Faber, £ 312.99
Paul McCartney, the greatest living rock icon is 63 but has the puckish
energy of a schoolboy. "I still have a childlike wonder of the
world," he says. "I never liked the idea of becoming a
standard grown-up."
‘I
am a flasher’
Bangalore-based author
Anita Nair can write anywhere, hotel rooms or airport lounges.
Everywhere except in her parental home in Kerala, that is! In Delhi for
a programme of conversations with women writers, "Words of
Women," organised by Zubaan, an imprint for publisher Kali for
Women, Nair still shudders at the memory of an early caustic review.
"I felt so hunted," she said.
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