|
Demonising the
guardians
Amreeta Sen
Savage Humans and Stray Dogs—A Study in
Aggression
by Hiranmay Karlekar.
Sage. Pages 275. Rs 295.
A dog starved at his master’s gate;
predicts the ruin of the State
— Auguries of Innocence by William Blake
ON
January 5, 2007, eight-year-old Sridevi was allegedly "torn to
pieces" by stray dogs, and the same thing happened to four-year-old
Manjunath on February 28.
Focus
on key issues
V. Eshwar Anand
Infrastructure & Governance
Ed Sameer Kochhar, Deepak B. Phatak, H. Krishnamurthy and Gusharan
Dhanjal.
Academic Foundation. Pages 166. Rs 695.
If
civil society was the buzz of the 1980s and ’90s, the focus is now on
good governance. Reforms, undoubtedly, could help lift developed
countries, like India, out of a plethora of problems.
Economics
of water
M. Rajivlochan
Governance of
Water—Institutional Alternatives and Political Economy
Ed. Vishwa Ballabh. Sage, New Delhi.
Pages 386. Rs 950.
THIS
interesting collection of 17 essays deals with controlling the market
for water, the management of water supply for irrigation, its pricing,
the subsidisation of water and the institutional set up required to move
forward towards a more equitable use of water.
Enter
the dragon
Gayatri Rajwade
Smoke and Mirrors: An
Experience of China
by Pallavi Aiyar.
4th Estate/HarperCollins.
Pages 282. Rs 395.
AS
Pallavi Aiyar sat in her mother’s home in Nizamuddin catching up with
a Danish friend from Oxford, the conversation turned to cultures or
people they believed to be most ‘other’ to them. Pallavi’s answer
was, ‘The Chinese’.
The
dark knight
Once hailed as the ‘Voice of
Generation X’, David Foster Wallace hanged himself at the age of 46. Guy
Adams reports from Los Angeles
For
a writer who elevated irony to an art form, and whose infinite jesting
co-existed with an all-too-apparent dark side, it felt grimly
appropriate that David Foster Wallace should have chosen suicide as the
means by which to end his own life story.
Stasi
tales
Josie Cox
Former
members of the Stasi come clean about their work for East Germany’s
infamous secret police in a new book that offers some of the most
detailed personal accounts of its clandestine operations.
Manuscripts
to go online
Jack Riley
MANCHESTER
University’s John Rylands Library will be digitising much of its
renowned collection of medieval manuscripts, including parts of
Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales. The project will allow widespread access
to the works online. Staff will begin to scan the pages using a high
definition camera in October and the results will be available by late
2009.
Back
of the book
The Leader’s Way
by His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Laurens Van Den Muyzenberg.
Nicholas Brealey Publishing.
Pages 202. Rs 495.
|
