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Overview
of IIT Kanpur
Reviewed by Jayanti Roy
An Eye for Excellence
By E.C. Subbarao.
Harper Collins.
Pages 336. Rs 595.
Documenting
documentary
Reviewed by Rachna Singh
From Raj to Swaraj: The
Non-fiction Film in India
By B.D. Garga.
Penguin Books.
Pages 214. Rs 695.
Man
of many contradictions
Reviewed by Shalini Rawat
An Indian for all Seasons: The
Many Lives of R.C. Dutt
By Meenakshi Mukherjee.
Penguin Books.
Pages 385. Rs 399.
Life
in a metro
Reviewed by Ravia Gupta
Neti, Neti
By Anjum Hasan.
Roli Books.
Pages 287. Rs 295.
On
a long trail of destruction
Reviewed by D. S. Cheema
Seeds of Terror
By Gretchen Peters.
Hachette India.
Pages 302. Rs 495.
SHORT
TAKES
Reviewed by Randeep Wadehra
Security Implications of
Climate Change
by IDSA Academic Foundation & IDSA.
Pages 192. Rs 695.
A Romance with Chaos
by Nishant Kaushik.
Rupa & Co.
Pages ix+291. Rs 95.
Essence of Sikhism
by Raghbir Singh Dhillon.
Lahore Book Shop.
Pages 193. Rs 195.
Warming
up to writing
The climate change summit in
Copenhagen has thrown up not just activists but authors too, with new
books hitting the shelves
AMID
hectic negotiations at a crucial meet in Copenhagen on dealing with the
climate change, a group of global conservation organisations have come
out with a book that highlights the need to save Protected Areas, which
offer a cost-effective solution to the impacts of global warming.
SHORT TAKES:
Security Implications of
Climate Change
Tete-a-tete
Nature’s own
Nonika Singh
NATURE
has been the constant factor in renowned sculptor and painter Shiv
Singh’s life. Both natural elements and nature’s forces were his
guide when as a small boy, growing up in a village Bassi Ghulam Hussain
in Hoshiarpur district he would make objects out of sarkandas and
draw prolifically on sand.
No
words worth
Maitreyee Boruah
At literary fests, I'm introduced as a sex worker, says author Jameela
HER
Malayalam book, translated into English as the Autobiography of a Sex
Worker, sold 13,000 copies within 100 days of its release in 2004
and went through six editions. But even today, bestselling author Nalini
Jameela finds respect hard to come by.
Soaring
on scandal
Tiger Woods drives the sales of
physics book sky-high
THE
book inside Tiger Woods' wrecked car has seen an increase in sale after
photographs of the accident scene surfaced. The book Get a Grip on
Physics by science writer John Gribbin is up 2,268th position on the
Amazon sales list from 396,224th.
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