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How Nehru’s image
got ‘tarnished’
Syed Nooruzzaman
Foreign Policies of India’s
Prime Ministers
by Harish Kapur.
Lancer Publishers.
Pages 444. Rs 895.
NO
set pattern can be seen in India’s foreign policy since Independence.
It has been pursued by every Prime Minister in his or her own way,
reflecting fluctuations. If Nehru came to be known for his
"macro-internationalism", many others after him, who took
genuine interest in the conduct of foreign policy, concentrated on
regional issues. This has been explained vividly by Prof Harish Kapur in
his latest book, Foreign Policy of India’s Prime Ministers.
Towards a new genre
Shoma A. Chatterji
Fallout
by Usha Ananda Krishna.
Tranquebar Press.
Pages 392. Rs 295.
Usha
Ananda Ramaswamy was a practicing architect before she moved to
full-time writing. Fallout is her second novel, 14 years after A
Turbulent Passage disappeared without creating a ripple. But Fallout
is not going to disappear.
Spirit
of womanhood
Kanwalpreet
Shakti: Real-Life Stories
Celebrating Women Power
by Maloy Krishna Dhar.
Vitasta.
Pages 381. Rs 325.
IT
is often said that women make the world a better place to live in with
their care, love and affection. Yet, women around the world continue to
be submitted to inhuman behaviour at the hands of men whom they nurture.
Why?
It
all adds up to paranoia
Johann Hari
Voodoo Histories
by David Aaronovitch.
Cape.
Pages 368. £17.99.
THIS
is the age of the conspiracy theory. In the interstices of the Internet,
no global event happens by accident any more—or as it seems at first
glance. While the truth is slowly getting its boots on, a paranoid
counter-narrative is broadbanded across the world in a flash. We can all
offer a list of conspiracies we have been told in a confidential
whisper, backed up by a blizzard of small incongruent questions scraped
together to make a fantastical answer.
Numero
uno of cricket
Kanchan Mehta
SMG: A Biography of Sunil
Manohar Gavaskar
by Devendra Prabhudesai.
Rupa.
Pages 537. Rs 395.
WITH
the ever-increasing popularity of cricket, the
biographies/auto-biographies of cricketers have also proliferated over
the years. For his long and illustrious cricketing career, "Indian
cricket’s all-time numero uno, on and off the field", Sunil
Manohar Gavaskar life has been richly chronicled.
New
Caribbean identity
Arun Gaur
Writers of the Caribbean
Diaspora: Shifting Homelands, Travelling Identities
Eds. Jasbir Jain and Supriya Agarwal.
Sterling Publishers.
Pages viii+288. Rs 300.
TWO
recent news items appear to be quite relevant here—the first concerned
the men who perished in a ship cargo-container and the second was about
the abstention of British/American representatives from the UN-sponsored
conference on racism wherein the Iranian president pointed out that the
American and British governments, in order to safeguard their own
imperial interests, cunningly "accuse" the non-imperial states
of violence against the Jewish race.
Designs
on authors
Furniture exhibition aims to
show connection with world of literature, Genevieve
Roberts reports from Paris
WHAT
would you make for the writer who has most influenced your life? The
question has been asked to 50 of the world’s best-known designers,
from the couturiers Christian Lacroix and Paul Smith to the architect
India Mahdavi.
American
traces her Jewish roots in India
American
writer and filmmaker Sadia Shepard came to India to find her roots and
understand her heritage — a mix of Protestant, Jewish and Islamic
cultures. She left with 18 diaries full of experiences that blended to
form a book.
SHORT TAKES
The power of cricket
Randeep Wadehra
Muslim Cricketers Of India
by K. R. Wadwaney.
Siddharth Publications.
Pages 239. Rs 500.
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