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Islam in
cyberspace
Ziauddin Sardar
iMuslims
By Gary R Bunt. Hurst.
Pages 358. £10.99.
THE
Internet has rewired Islam. The web is now at the core of all Muslim
communities and performs a central role in Islamic expression. It is
being used to reinterpret Islam; and Muslims themselves are being
transformed.
Scientist
looks at the Creator
Kuldip Dhiman
God is not Dead: What Quantum
Physics Tells us About our Origins and How We Should Live
By Amit Goswami.
Jaico.
Pages 310. Rs 295.
Aristotle
showed us that whenever we ask the "why" question, four
explanations or causes could be given. They are: material cause,
formal cause, efficient cause, and final cause. If we take the example
of a chair, wood is its material cause.
Muddy
bottom of democracy
Shalini Rawat
Comrade Sahib
By Rohit Handa.
Genesis Publishing.
Pages 267. Rs 175.
THE
Naxalbari movement, like a mole, keeps surfacing at different places
on the Indian political scape. The lotus-eating bureaucrats, since the
inception (or outbreak?) of the movement have stirred ever so little
to delve into question of this and other such tangential explorations
of democracy.
Riveting
encounter with male psyche
Puneetinder Kaur Sidhu
THE
first thought that came to mind after I finished reading Palash
Krishna Mehrotra’s collection of short stories was: Does man choose
his environment or does environment choose the man? Having acquainted
with the author, not very long ago, at his way-past-sell-by-date digs
in a tony south Delhi locality, I would have imagined it was the
former.
punjabi
review
Unique
personalities
B. S. Thaur
Meri Saunh
By Gulzar Singh Sandhu.
Lok Geet Parkashan.
Pages 240. Rs 200.
THIS
book contains profiles of 36 eminent Punjabis, who attained heights in
their field of activity, including litterateurs, artists, aesthetes,
connoisseurs and politicians. The author Gulzar Singh Sandhu, a Sahit
Academy awardee, has had the privilege to work with high dignitaries
like M.S. Randhawa and Prem Bhatia. With others, like Amrita Pritam,
Balwant Gargi, Kulwant Singh Virk, Batalvi and Mishra et al, he had
frequent interactions during literary meets, poetical symposiums, etc.
SHORT TAKES
Selling ideas and images
Randeep Wadehra
Political Marketing In India
By Dr. Arun Kumar.
Regal Publications.
Pages: xxi+397. Rs 1380.
The
monk who inspired a hundred books
Vishal Gulati
IT
is perhaps natural that the Dalai Lama, the exiled Tibetan leader who
is revered as a spiritual guru, should inspire writers from all over
the world. Despite there already being over 100 biographies and other
books on the monk, writers continue to queue for an audience with him. back of the book
The Fine Print
Other Yarns
By Dinesh Verma.
UBS Publishers.
Pages 293. Rs 295.
THE
fine print and other yarns, a collection of nine stories of which
seven are set in Paris of 1980s and 1990s and two in contemporary
India, is like a kaleidoscope, each turn of which presents an
eminently interesting and unforgettable character. Music
of Menuhin
NO
musician embodied the musical spirit in its highest essence more than
mystical violinist Yehudi Menuhin, be it breaking barriers and
creating a concept of universal music or his fruitful relationship
with artistes like sitarist Ravi Shankar among others, says a new
book.
19-year-old
hits best-seller list
Susan Carpenter
A
privileged life isn’t always the same as a charmed life, but Isabel
Kaplan is one of those rare people who lead both. Godchild of Carol
Channing, daughter of well-connected University of Southern California
professors Susan Estrich and Martin Kaplan, Kaplan is a Los Angeles
native who, at 19, has already founded two non-profit organisations,
interned at Glamour magazine and with US Rep. Edward Markey,
D-Mass., and now attends Harvard University.
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