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Perspectives on
religious pluralism
Sunita Pathania
Inter-Religious Communication: A Gandhian Perspective
by Margaret Chatterjee.
Promilla & Co.
Pages 200. Rs 425.
A
noted
scholar, Margaret Chatterjee has made an outstanding contribution to
philosophy of religion and history of ideas through her earlier
celebrated works like Gandhi’s Religious Thought and Gandhi
and the Challenge of Religious Diversity. Her latest book is a
collection of papers which are either out of print or have been
published abroad. This compilation lays a particular emphasis on the
challenging fact of religious pluralism.
Panchayati
raj: Governance beyond govt
Ash Narain Roy
Inclusion and Exclusion in
Local Governance: Field Studies from Rural India
Ed B S Baviskar and George Mathew.
Sage.
Pages 453. Rs 750.
panchayati
raj, in its new avatar, has been envisaged not only as the third tier of
government but also as the first tier of democracy, where empowered
local communities would take control of their own destiny. It was meant
to usher in a silent revolution that would radically transform
governance in India.
Leisure
time adventures
Khushwant S. Gill
Looking Beyond
by Hugh and Colleen Gantzer.
HarperCollins.
Pages 276. Rs 295.
Paul
Theroux once remarked, "Travel is the opposite of a holiday. It is
about enlightenment." And that is what pioneering travel writers
and documentary filmmakers Hugh and Colleen Gantzer have been doing for
many years—travelling the country and the world and enlightening us
with their delightful tales.
Exploring
uncharted territories
Ramesh Luthra
First Proof: The Penguin Book
of New Writing from India 4
Penguin.
Pages 236. Rs 250.
VERY
few in the field of publishing dare take a plunge deep in the ocean of
writing and come out with precious but undiscovered treasure therein. First
Proof: The Penguin Books of New Writing from India 4 is a
commendable and comprehensive effort in this respect.
Mosaic
of life in Mumbai
Nonika Singh
Window Seat: Rush-Hour Stories
from the City
by Janhavi Acharekar.
HarperCollins.
Pages 244. Rs 250.
During
a flight, we all clamour for a window seat to gain a better view. So,
what does Janhavi Acharekar’s Window Seat, a compilation of
short stories, offer? Expectedly, it is a panoramic expanse, however,
not a bird’s-eye view of life—an impassioned perspective, but not
one that lacks depth.
The
importance of being Oscar
S. Raghunath
What
Oscar Wilde himself would have thought about adapting his plays into
movies or indeed what he would have thought about movies in general is
something to titillate the imagination.
Agatha
Christie’s home
Emily Beament
THE
holiday home that was once described by murder mystery writer Agatha
Christie as "the loveliest place in the world" was opened to
the public recently, as a `A35.4m restoration returns it to how it
looked in 1950s.
Literary
fibs
TWO
out of three Britons have lied about reading books they have not, and
George Orwell’s 1984 tops the literary fib list, according to a
survey. Commissioned by organisers of World Book Day, an annual
celebration of reading in Britain, the study also shows that the author
people really enjoy reading is J.K. Rowling, creator of the bestselling
Harry Potter wizard series.
SHORT
TAKES
Undiplomatic
ways
Randeep Wadehra
Clueless in California
by B. S. Prakash.
Konark.
Pages x+213. Rs 195.
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