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Border imbroglio
Parshotam Mehra
India-China Relations: the Border Issue
and Beyond
by Mohan Guruswamy and Zorawar Daulet Singh.
Viva Books, New Delhi.
Pages viii+217. Rs 795.
OVER
a period of six decades, India’s relations with China have by and
large been less than cordial, or even peaceful. Former Prime Minister
Jawaharlal Nehru, notwithstanding adverse criticism at home and abroad,
embarked on a course of cultivating "friendly" ties with
Beijing and hoped the two nations together would blaze a trail for Asia
in particular and the world community in general.
In
sync with the Indian soul
Chandak Sengoopta
The Immortals
by Amit Chaudhuri.
Picador.
Pages 404. £16.99
INDIAN
novelists are a dime a dozen these days, but they all seem to write
about crime, Bollywood or poverty. Amit Chaudhuri is not one of their
ilk. Not just a novelist but also a classical singer, academic and
critic, Chaudhuri is one of India’s most distinctive literary figures.
While lesser writers obsess over the heat and dust, he charts the
by-ways of the Indian soul.
The
dark struggle
Rachna Singh
The Sound of Water
by Sanjay Bahadur.
Roli Books.
Pages 168. Rs 195.
MINING
today finds mention only in environmental forums, with environmentalists
holding forth loudly on how defacing it is and how crippling to the
landscape. The human aspect, predictably, is lost in academic wrangling.
A human disaster tweaks the academic posturing only to settle back into
statistics in disaster management texts.
Ethical
dilemmas
Ashok Vohra
Ethics and the History of
Indian Philosophy
by Shyam Ranganathan.
Motilal Banarsidass Publishers, Delhi.
Pages xviii+402. Rs 795.
THE
subject matter of ethics is social behaviour of human beings. It
distinguishes between the moral and the immoral, the right and the
wrong, and the good and the evil conduct of human beings living in
society. It is normative in the sense that it lays down principles for
judging what is right and good in human conduct.
Glimpses
of 18th- century Delhi
Madhusree Chatterjee
A
storyteller and a begum swap tales and match their narrative wits in
writer-journalist Omair Ahmad's new book The Storyteller's Tale
— giving a glimpse of 18th century Delhi after Afghan warlord Ahmad
Shah Abdali's army plundered it.
A
unique portrait
A
heritage group has uncovered a
400-year-old portrait of playwright William Shakespeare, saying it
believed it was the only authentic image of him made during his life.
Recipe
for profit
British
chef Jamie Oliver has become the country’s biggest selling author
after sales of his cookbooks leapt by more than 20 per cent last year.
With his latest cookery book, Jamie’s Ministry of Food, Oliver
pipped Khaled Hosseini, James Patterson and J.K. Rowling by pulling down
more than 11.5 million pounds in sales in 2008.
PUNJABI REVIEW
Who will police the police ?
B. S. Thaur
Merian Abhull Yaadan ate Sunehe
(My Unforgettable Memories
and Messages)
by Avtar Singh Gill.
Jaswant Printers, Ludhiana.
Pages 184. Rs 300.
Back of the book
The Power of the Possible
by Auriela McCarthy. Jaico.
Pages 260. Rs 295.
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