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Familial bonds
Roopinder Singh
In Search of Roots: Guru Amar
Das and Bhallas
By A. S. Bhalla.
Rupa.
Pages 336. Rs 595.
ALEX
Haley, the author of the bestselling book Roots, put it
succinctly when he said: "In all of us there is a hunger,
marrow-deep, to know our heritage, to know who we are and where we
came from." In India, we too have a long history of an oral
tradition that has captured the glories, often rose tainted, of family
histories of people with means.
Sahir
— the magic lives on
Dr Naresh Raj
SAHIR
LUDHIANVI was not merely a romantic poet but true to his pen name, he
was a magician of words. He employed romanticism in a subtle manner to
bring out the agony of the distressed vividly.
Must-know
facts about pandemic
Nonika Singh
Swine Flu: Pandemic Strikes
— The New H1NI Threat
By Sunaina Chaturvedi.
Pentagon Press.
Pages 210. Rs 495.
A
book on the deadly swine flu
that has in recent times evoked both interest and curiosity as well
triggered panic ever since the WHO declared it a pandemic ought to
have been on the cards. That, an Indian, Sunaiana Chaturvedi, has
penned it, however, comes as a surprise.
Harsh
realities of life
Manmeet Sodhi
Like a Diamond in the Sky
By Shazia Omar.
Penguin Zubaan.
Pages 252. Rs 295.
SHAZIA
OMAR’s debut novel Like a Diamond in the Sky is a riveting
tale of love, loss, crime, spirituality and longing for a mouthful of
sky. Set in modern Dhaka where morality takes on a new definition with
all its squalor, its noisy streets, despair, hopes and aspirations.
She draws the reader into contemporary Bangladesh and its peculiar yet
universal problems.
Story
of new India
Guy Mannes-Abbott
Lanterns on their Horns
By Radhika Jha.
Beautiful Books.
Pages 416. £13.49.
RADHIKA
JHA’s second novel is about transformations in the heart and body of
India. This new India will impact on us all, despite the lack of
interest we showed in its national election this year. Jha bridges
this chasm with a highly affecting and finely crafted story.
HINDi review
Relieving pain and suffering
Harbans Singh
Safeena
By Bittu Sandhu.
Rajkamal Prakashan.
Pages 103. Rs 195.
Back
of the book
The Third Bomb
By Gregory Berglund.
Jnanada Prakashan.
Page 385. Rs 250.
A
creative effort to break free from the confines of conventional
strategic discourse by facing the propensity for hatred and violence
which generates conflict and war.
Snapshots
of class and immigration
Madhusree Chatterjee
Nigerian
novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, who won the Orange Broadband
Prize for Fiction in 2007 for her book Half of a Yellow Sun,
paints snapshots of the roller-coaster called America in her new
book, The Thing Around Your Neck.
Google
to open digital books archive to rival retailers
Alex Pham
IN
an effort to quell its critics, Google Inc. said it would open up its
vast digital books archive to rival retailers who can access the books
and sell them online.
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