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North-East:
saga of political ambition and thwarted aspirations
Vinita Gardner
Contesting Marginality: Ethnicity, Insurgency and
Subnationalism in North-East India
by Sajal Nag. Manohar. New Delhi. Pages 382. Rs 795.
THE
"abrupt" withdrawal of the British from India
catapulted the plethora of protohistoric and more advanced
tribes inhabiting northeast India into the midst of a
bourgeois political system, which they were scarcely equipped
to deal with.
Penetrating
treatise on the concept of jehad
D.R. Chaudhry
Islam and Jihad
by A.G. Noorani. Left Word Books, N. Delhi. Pages XII+16.Rs
75.
JEHAD
as a concept has contributed a great deal in demonising Islam
in the modern times. It fires the imagination of Islamic
fundamentalists and prompts them to make any sacrifice for the
cause they happen to espouse at a particular juncture and
evokes passionate opposition and intense hatred among those
who are on the other side of the fence.
Bhagat
Singh’s philosophy was ahead of his times
C.D. Verma
OUT
of hundreds of revolutionaries who went to the gallows during
India’s struggle for freedom, the name that first comes to
our mind is that of Sardar Bhagat Singh who led an armed
rebellion against the British, and eventually laid down his
life for the cause of India’s freedom.
Studying
the political consciousness of Telugu poetry
Akshaya Kumar
Twentieth Century Telugu Poetry: An Anthology
edited and translated by Velcheru Narayana Rao, Delhi. OUP.
Pages 345. Rs 595
ENCOUNTERS
with colonialism have generated all kinds of responses —
from downright self-deprecation to rabid self-righteousness.
Telugu poetry in the twentieth century hinges more or less on
these two extreme responses.
The
tales pilgrims tell
Shalini Rawat
Spiritual journey, imperial city
by Alexandra Mack Vedams, Pages
227; Rs 900
THE
hallmark of good research is its universal applicability.
Lines of thought run a relay, handing over the idea from the
author/researcher to the disseminator/s, thus creating a
diffusion of pluralities, which convey, classify or extend the
boundaries of the original idea.
Images
as metaphors
Deepika Gurdev
Portrait in Sepia
by Isabel Allende. Harper Collins. Pages 304. Singapore $15
(paperback).
IN
this historical work, a young woman looks back on her
childhood in the late 19th-century Chile and San Francisco.
This sweeping novel encompasses war, revolution and family
crises.
Short takes
Managing
people
Jaswant Singh
Managing Difficult People
by Karen Mannering. UBS Publishers’ Distributors, New Delhi.
Pages 127. Rs 125
MAN
management is an important aspect of a manager’s skills.
Here is a handbook that describes how to cope with difficult
people, situations and relationships at your workplace,
whether the persons concerned are your superiors or your
colleagues.
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