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A Gandhi of our
times
Reviewed by Uttam
Sengupta
Nelson Mandela: Conversations with Myself
Pan Macmillan.
Pages 454. ` 999.
IT
is often the insignificant detail that provides illuminating insights
about significant people like the time when Nelson Mandela was sent back
to his hotel from a conference in New York. It was at the United Nations
and far too many people wanted to shake hands with him.
Basic
urban issues under spotlight
Reviewed by
Kanwalpreet
Contemporary Indian Urban Society: Ethnicity, Gender and Governance
By Rajesh Gill.
Bookwell, New Delhi.
Pages 377. `
845.
THE
contemporary Indian society is in a flux. In fact, the rural as well as
urban societies are undergoing changes that need to be understood.
Rajesh Gill has tried to do exactly the same through this book, which
consists of deliberations on various problems faced by people living in
the periphery of urban areas.
Cairo
agenda and beyond
Reviewed by Rajesh
Kumar Aggarwal
Markets and Malthus: Population, Gender and Health in Neo-liberal Times
Eds Mohan Rao and Sarah Sexton.
Sage. Pages 350. `
795.
WAS
the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) held
at Cairo in 1994 a paradigm shift or was it just another population
control strategy in a new avatar? Can it be termed as a marriage
of multinational feminism with international debt?
The
great divide
Reviewed by Sumit Alhawat
India Divided
By Rajendra Prasad.
Penguin Books.
Pages 565. `
499.
INDIA
Divided is a very important historical document, prepared by Dr
Rajendra Prasad who later on became India’s first President. In a
nutshell, the book covers his approach and his fundamental opposition to
the proposal for Partition.
Single
state
Humra Quraishi
Author Sushmita Bose brings out the ups and downs of a singleton’s
life
SUSHMITA
Bose’s weekly column in a national daily — ' Single In the
City' — was a hit with not just not the singletons but also with the
much married, for it revealed their highs and lows. Well, now the entire
series has been put together in a book of the same name, Single In
The City (Om Books).
Tęte-ŕ-tęte
Advocating art
Nonika Singh
ART
shouldn’t be all sugar and
sweet. It must stir within." So believes well-known photographer
and filmmaker Samar S Jodha. Any wonder, his art project at the India
Art Summit 2011, titled ‘Bhopal: A Silent Picture’, relived the
world’s worst environmental and industrial disaster.
Short Takes
Complex society, amusing anecdotes
Reviewed by Randeep Wadehra
New Understanding of Indian Society
by S. R. Mehta.
Indian Institute of Advanced Studies.
Pages 658. `995.
New
Bond novel
Rob Sharp
The
world's most debonair spy is to swap Monte Carlo's casinos for
the sun-scorched souks of the Middle East. The next James Bond book is
to be called Carte Blanche and will see 007 face down peril among
the chintzy nightclubs and towering skyscrapers of Dubai.
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