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Spirit of adventure
Rumina Sethi
A Princess’s Pilgrimage: Nawab Sikandar
Begum’s “A Pilgrimage to Mecca”
Ed. Siobhan Lambert-Hurley.
Women Unlimited.
Pages 180. Rs 350.
A
Pilgrimage to Mecca was written in 1870 but soon went out of print.
Sikandar Begum’s Urdu text had been translated by the wife of a
British colonial officer, Emma Laura Willoughby-Osborne. Women Unlimited
have unearthed it for contemporary audiences and reacquainted us with a
woman’s account of her hajj to Mecca, a religious injunction
all Muslims are exhorted to perform at least once in their lifetime.
Journey
through time, cultures and cuisines
Roopinder Singh
Indian Takeaway
Hardeep Singh Kohli
HarperCollins.
Pages 285. Rs 295.
TAKE
a "return to the roots" quest, throw in a handful of
encounters of the culinary kind, mix in exotic locales and have an
experienced expat chef fold in the result into a book, and you are
served a dish has definitely a distinctive aroma.
Bard’s
First Folio
Arthur
Wainwright narrates the story of the first edition of
Shakespeare’s works on the occasion of 445th birth anniversary of
the great dramatist on April 23
Shakespeare’s
birthday is traditionally celebrated on April 23, as he was born on
the St George’s Day in 1564. In this context it is interesting to
consider the saga of the first edition of his published works dated
1623, which are known as Shakespeare’s First Folio and cost
as much as Rs 30 crore a copy in international rare book auctions.
Tribute
to grandmother
Aradhika Sharma
Maudiegirl and the von Bloss
Kitchen
by Carl Muller.
Penguin Books.
Pages 387. Rs 299.
Maudiegirl
and the von Bloss Kitchen is the fourth in Carl Muller’s series of
books on the Burghers of Sri Lanka. Muller’s series consists of The
Jam Fruit Tree (1993), Yakada Yaka, "the steel
devil", referring to the coal-fired train engine (1994) and Once
Upon a Tender Time (1995).
Creativity
and connectivity
T.P. Sreenivasan
Foreign
Service officers, by definition, are people with a flair for words,
whether in print or in speech. They also have the opportunity to have a
variety of extraordinary experiences worthy of sharing. No wonder,
therefore, many of them turn writers of imagination and talent.
‘It
is a book about myself in India’
M. G. Vassanji talks to Pankaj
K. Singh about A Place Within and himself
THE
author of six acclaimed novels and two collections of short stories, M.G.
Vassanji, the Toronto-based novelist of Indian descent, was born in
Kenya and raised in Tanzania. He went to university in the United
States, at MIT and the University of Pennsylvania.
‘I
have not stopped writing’
Nobel
literature laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez has denied reports that he
had stopped writing, Colombia’s El Tiempo newspaper reported.
back
of the book
Motivation and
Incentives in Government Organizations—Mantra for Success
by Mohanish Verma.
Arya Publishing House.
Pages 184. Rs 450.
THE
Global economic meltdown, the challenges of combating terrorism, the
pressures to speed up development are all factors which have catapulted
the government sector in India to a new series of challenges.
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