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The prize and its
price
Roopinder Singh
The Winner Stands Alone
by Paulo Coelho
Harper Collins.
Pages 375. Rs 325.
IT
starts early, the urge to win; not to just do something, but to excel,
more so at the cost of others who are also trying to do the same.
Winning often gets you a prize, but it always comes at a price ... you
set higher goals, and in the process, you become more focused,
sacrifice more ...
Room
with a view
Arifa Akbar
In Other Rooms, Other Wonders
by Daniyal Mueenuddin.
W.W Norton &Co.
Pages 224.
THESE
eight interlinked stories take the reader from the mannered drawing
rooms of Lahore to the mud villages beyond, describing the overlapping
lives of an ageing landowner, K.K. Harouni, his extended family
members, many of whom have abandoned the feudal life for a
metropolitan existence in Paris, London and New York, and his army of
servants who are still all too dependant on the old way.
Rendezvous
with pristine beauty
Jyoti Singh
Mussoorie Across the Ages
by Ganesh Saili
Rupa.
Pages 146. Rs 150.
THIS
book is another sequel to Ganesh Saili’s over a dozen books on the
Himalayas—a peek into the past, personal recollections and the
experiences of the travellers to this place. The book offers between
two covers the writings of various visitors to Mussoorie in different
times, all of whom were great observers and left behind for us a
legacy of word-pictures of the place in the days of its infancy.
Tales
of urban underbelly
Madhusree Chatterjee
Writing
on castaways and people inhabiting the fringes of society is not
always easy. Ask writer Palash Krishna Mehrotra who walks down the
dark alleys of India’s urban underbelly in his debut collection of
short stories.
Understanding
India
Rajesh Kumar Aggarwal
Transitional Puzzles:
Reflections on Social, Economic and Political Issues
by Amlan Datta.
Sage Publications.
Pages 287. Rs 395.
THE
book is an anthology of 35 small essays which are intended for the
common man to seek and understand India. It offers simple analysis of
complex policies dealing with varied and vast issues of uniting India,
changing urban agglomerations, sustainable growth, industrialisation
and social reconstruction, alternative economic order, higher
education and associated problems religion, Gandhism, human values and
democracy.
Thickest
spine record
THE
world’s favourite detective fiction writer Agatha Christie keeps
breaking world records even after her death. The latest record-breaker
is the complete collection of Miss Marple stories with a spine that is
over a foot thick.
HINDI REVIEW
Valuable insights on Tibet
Harbans Singh
Tibet Upniveshvaad ke Pachchas Saal: A Special Issue of Tibet Desh
Ed. Vijay Kranti.
Indo-Tibet Coordination Centre, New Delhi.
Pages 200. Price not stated.
SHORT TAKES
Two faces of treachery
Randeep Wadehra
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Rogue Agent
by Nandita Haksar.
Penguin.
Pages xiii+242. Rs 299.
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Malicious
medicine: My Experience With Fraud And Falsehood In Infertility
Clinics
by Anitha Jayadevan.
Penguin.
Pages xii+105. Rs 150.
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Connecting India:
Indian Telecom Story
by S.D. Saxena.
Konark.
Pages: xvi+183. Rs 200.
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