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There’s no ‘final
truth’
Belu Maheshwari
Historical Diversities: Society, Politics and Culture
(Essays for Professor V. N. Datta)
Eds. K. L. Tuteja and Sunita Pathania.
Manohar.
Pages 468. $72.
AS
the title suggests, the papers in this volume encompass varied aspects
of history, written by some of the most eminent historians who have
redefined the subject. These historians do not subscribe to limiting
history in time and space, for them it is eclectic, multidimensional and
diverse.
Far
lands, familiar sights
Nonika Singh
(Un)settled: Notes From a
Shifting Life
by Kamini Karlekar. Tranquebar.
Pages 184. Rs 295.
SO
what does it take to be a refugee, to be unsettled, to be an immigrant
in a new land, far away from home? More significantly what does it mean
to be the one whose verdict can be a deciding factor in whether the
refugees will stay on in the foreign land that they have chosen as their
home?
Ethical
dilemmas in workplace
Kuldip Dhiman
Ethics for the Real World:
Creating a Personal Code to Guide Decisions in Work and Life
by Ronald A. Howard and Clinton D. Korver.
Harvard Business Press.
Pages 240. $24.95.
DO
ends justify the means, or is it the other way round? Such questions
have kept moral philosophers arguing for centuries. Most of us are
deeply influenced by ethical philosophy, but when it comes to real life,
we often violate our cherished moral codes saying — everything is fair
in love and war.
Deadly
legacy
G. S. Bhargava
Militancy in Jammu and Kashmir:
The Uncovered Face
by Luv Puri.
Promilla & Co., Publishers in association with
Bibliophile South Asia, New Delhi, and Chicago.
Pages 116. Rs 350.
THE
young author of this painstakingly researched little book is the chip
off the old block. The veteran expert on Kashmir and well-known author,
Balraj Puri, is his father who was awarded Padma Vibhushan in 2005.
Balraj is not only an academic but also an activist.
Forging
ahead in adopted land
Kavita Soni-Sharma
The Other Indians: A Political
and Cultural History of South Asians in America
by Vinay Lal.
HarperCollins.
Pages 159. Rs 295.
TODAY,
the Indian diaspora is an incontestable fact of world culture. Diverse
Indian communities scattered across the globe now complement the
19th-century diaspora of indentured labourers and traders, and nowhere
has the growth of the Indian diaspora registered such a phenomenal
increase as in the US.
Athill
bags Costa book award at 91
The former literary editor is
the oldest winner of the prize, for her book, which drew plaudits for
its honesty, writes Arifa Akbar
A
91-year-old who wrote an unflinching memoir encompassing the end of her
sex life, the intimacies of ageing and the prospect of death has become
the oldest writer to win a Costa prize.
Laura’s
memoirs
US
First Lady Laura Bush has inked a deal with Scribner to write her
memoirs for publication in the spring of 2010. The memoirs will include
her experiences in the White House and Texas governor’s mansion along
with some "very personal" details like having a strong-willed
mother-in-law, dealing with loss and raising children.
Gay
view of life
Photographer
Sunil Gupta has a different focus on his camera lens. It pans the life
and times of his generation — the happening 70s when alternative
sexuality was coming out of the closet and young itinerants were
journeying the globe in search of love.
SHORT TAKES
Voice against
drug abuse
Randeep Wadehra
Narcotics: Crime, Terrorism and
Control
by SP Kar. K.W Publishers.
Pages: viii+296l. Rs 780.
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