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A fund
of information indeed
Kamlesh Khosla
How Good Are Mutual Funds
edited by L. C. Gupta and Utpal K. Choudhury. Society for
Capital Market Research and Development, Delhi. Pages 105. Rs
270.
THE
book under review attempts to analyse the perception and
attitude of investors towards mutual funds. Hence the title, How
Good Are Mutual Funds, is quite relevant. It is a
high-quality research-based book, which contains a study that
gives valuable insight into the functioning of mutual funds in
India.
Old
wine in old bottle
Manisha Gangahar
Psychological Conflicts in the Fiction of Anita Desai
By Usha Rani Abhishek Publications, Chandigarh. Pages 287. Rs
595
THE
literary scene in the last decade seems to have been taken
over by the south Asian writers, especially Indian authors
like Arundhati Roy, whose The God of Small Things earned her
the prestigious Booker Prize in 1997; Rohinton Mistry’s A
Fine Balance; Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Interpreter of Maladies
which won the Pulitzer Prize in 2000 are some of the applauded
works.
Into
the minds of merchants of death
Jaswant Singh
Most Wanted: Profiles of terror
edited by Harinder Baweja; Roli Books, New Delhi, Pages 144,
Rs 195.
WANT
to make acquaintance with purveyors of death, training their
guns mainly on India? Here is a list of six, four of them
Islamic fundamentalists. These profiles have been prepared by
journalists from India and Pakistan who came in contact with
these merchants of death in the course of their professional
duties.
Celebration
of the world’s wilder places & people
Deepika Gurdev
A Mad World, My Masters
by John Simpson Pan Macmillan: . Pages 436. $20 (Singapore)
WHEN
I come across a book this splendid, I don't stay up all night,
turn page after page in breathless anticipation of reaching
the very end. Strangely enough, I spend the next month or
sometimes even two poring over every little bit of information
that may or may not have been gleaned off the pages.
Off the shelf
Diversities
in Urdu
V. N. Datta
THE
Partition of India in 1947 gave a severe blow to the
development of the Urdu language, and since then the
popularity of Urdu has greatly diminished. Mostly it is the
pre-Partition-born generation that takes to its reading and
writing.
Write view
How
numerals evolved with the flow of history
Randeep Wadehra
Numerals in Orissan Inscriptions
by Subrata Kumar Acharya, Indian Institute of Advanced Study,
Shimla. Pages 244. Rs 350.
PALAEOGRAPHY,
in its broader sense, is the study and analysis of the writing
of ancient times and of the Middle Ages. In its restricted
sense, palaeography denotes only the study of writing on such
destructible materials as papyrus, wax, parchment and vellum,
and paper. Acharya uses the term in its wider sense.
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