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Swaraaj Chauhan
Media Ethics: Truth, Fairness
and Objectivity
By Paranjoy Guha Thakurta.
Oxford University Press.
Pages 352. Rs 245.
GOOD
manners were at one time the hallmark of a professional person. Among
the media and other professionals, the word "ethics" came
into increased circulation about three decades ago; although, in
simple terms, we are still referring to the spirit behind the good-old
good manners.
Holmes
in India
Madhusree Chatterjee
FIVE
thousand miles away from 221 B, Baker Street, Sherlock Holmes’
legendary address, a Bengali man stumbles upon some letters and
notebooks hidden in a wooden box... so goes a new story woven around
the British detective by Indian writer Partha Basu.
On
the right course
Humra Quraishi
The Right To Information —
A Global Perspective
By K.M Shrivastava. Lancer.
Pages 173. Rs 395.
PROF.
K. M. Shrivastava is a
senior professor at the Indian Institute of Mass Communication and has
authored several books related to the media. And now comes the latest
book from him — The Right To Information — A Global
Perspective.
Living
in the shadow of fear
Arvinder
The Burning Orchard
By Anita Krishan
Prakash Books.
Pages 303. Rs 250.
THE
strife-torn land of Kashmir has been the subject of many books of
fiction and non-fiction. Undoubtedly, the place has always been a
strong point of attraction, less now for the visitors and tourists,
and more for the power-hungry politicians.
Votary
of change
Nonika Singh
THE
titan of Punjabi theatre, Gursharan Singh, is today a changed man. And
a happy one, too. For hasn’t society changed for the better. And the
government, he once fought tooth and nail, working towards the desired
reality that he has depicted all his life through his theatre. Without
squirming, he accepts the charge that indeed his theatre is
"lecture".
Tips
for writers, publishers
B. S. Thaur
Book Publishing: Principles
and Practices
by Dina N. Malhotra.
Clarion Books.
Pages 200. Rs 295.
DINA
N. MALHOTRA has been into book publishing for more than six decades.
In this book, he has explained all the nitty-gritty of the book
publishing trade in an easy manner like that of a school textbook.
Bridging
the development gap
Rajesh Kumar Aggarwal
India: Perspectives on
Equitable Development
Eds S. Mahendra Dev and
N. Chandrasekhara Rao.
Academic Foundation, New Delhi.
Pages 615. Rs 1,295.
THE
book is a collection of 18 research papers presented by eminent
scholars at an international conference organised by the Centre for
Economic and Social Studies (CESS), Hyderabad.
Now,
authors promote through the Web
Neely Tucker
ALL
the old-school staples of book promotion — the book festival, the
tour, the glowing newspaper review — Kelly Corrigan got none of them
to promote The Middle Place. What was a new author to do?
Toast
to a new lexicon
Jonathan Brown
THAT
festering colleague slouched in the corner ... leave the fellow alone,
he’s merely crambazzled. For
anyone who has struggled to find the exact word to describe someone
prematurely aged by drink, help is at hand.
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