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Guts and the
Ganges
Neelam Mansingh Chowdhry
Shooting Water: A Mother-Daughter Journey
and the Making of a Film
by Devyani Saltzman. Penguin. Pages 256. Rs 295.
Shooting
Water by Devyani Saltzman is a beautiful and haunting memoir by the
daughter of celebrated filmmaker Deepa Mehta and is both engaging and
moving, dovetailing personal history with the struggle to produce a
film. Even though the book is
written in first person, it tells a much larger story.
Attitude
matters
Arvind Mehan
Change Management: Altering
Mindsets in a Global Context
by V. Nilakant and S Ramanarayan. Response Books. Pages 355. Rs 380.
Effective
management of change is all about balance—between short-term and
long-term, profits and people, overview and detail, continuity and
transformation, reality and imagination, hard-nosed business savvy and
soft-hearted dreams and feasibility and desirability.
Publish
and be damned
RIVERSIDE,
California USA: Colton Simpson's autobiography impressed literary
critics last fall with its raw account of Los Angeles gang underworld
and his life as a thief, thug and triggerman in the bloody battle
between the Crips and the Bloods.
The
scars on her mind
Kanwalpreet
Gender and Conflict
by Shoma A. Chatterji. UBSPD Publishers, Delhi. Pages 233. Rs 295.
THE
status of women has become the focal point of many studies, but Shoma A.
Chatterji has redefined gender and conflict. Women not only give birth
but also nurture families. Whenever there is any conflict, it is they
who get a raw deal, be it violence within the family, tribal enmity or
war, it’s the women who face the brunt of everything.
Bowled
over
Deepika Gurdev
The Match
by Romesh Gunesekera. Bloomsbury. Pages 320. Sin $ 28.50.
WHEN
you get something that gives you a mix of Manila, London and Sri Lanka
with a heady dose of cricket thrown in, you’ve got me hooked. If it
comes from the award-winning author of Monkfish Moon, Reef,
Heaven’s Edge and The Sandglass, it’s more than enough
reason to stay up all night.
INTERVIEW
‘I never let the present defeat the future’
MJ Akbar
needs no introduction—he’s not just the founder and Editor-in-Chief of The Asian Age as well as the Editor-in-Chief of Deccan Chronicle (earlier in the 1970s and 1980s he had launched Sunday
and The Telegraph) but the author of several books—The Shade of Swords: Jihad and the Conflict between Islam and Christianity, Nehru: The Making of a Nation, Kashmir: Behind the Vale, India: The Siege Within, Riot After Riot and a collection of his articles, Byline.
Confluence
of faith
Amar Chandel
Blood Brothers
by M J Akbar; Roli Books; Pages 346. Rs 395.
THE
autobiography of a person who has himself been engaged in a historical
role in a nation’s march is bound to be a big draw. A book detailing
the exploits of a prominent family can also be a good read. The saga of
the family of prominent journalist MJ Akbar does not fit into either of
these slots.
Sufi is flavour of season
Mohan K. Tikku
Around
this time last
year, Coleman Barks, American poet and celebrated translator of Persian
poet Jalaluddin Rumi, sent me a mail saying that he was going to be in
Afghanistan for the Afghan New Year and would like to squeeze in a day
or two for a visit to New Delhi as well.
Fifth-time lucky
Louise Jury
SHE has been nominated
four times before but Erica James finally overcame the opposition to
clinch the £10,000 award for Romantic Novel of the Year. The 46-year-old writer
beat a shortlist including previous winners, Jojo Moyes and Audrey
Howard, and a rare male contender, Nicholas Sparks, to take the annual
prize with her novel, Gardens of Delight.
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