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Overview of IIT
Kanpur
Reviewed by Jayanti Roy
An Eye for Excellence
By E.C. Subbarao.
Harper Collins.
Pages 336. Rs 595.
RECENTLY,
the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) were in the headlines for
several days owing to the hunger strike by its teachers who felt that
the recent pay hike in their pay structure was not in tune with their
capabilities.
Documenting
documentary
Reviewed by Rachna Singh
From Raj to Swaraj: The
Non-fiction Film in India
By B.D. Garga.
Penguin Books.
Pages 214. Rs 695.
AS
a child I remember sitting glued to my chair in a darkened hall,
watching a black and white newsreel before the start of a film. Those
were the days when it was the norm in all cinema halls to show a
documentary film before the start of a movie.
Man
of many contradictions
Reviewed by Shalini Rawat
An Indian for all
Seasons: The Many Lives of R.C. Dutt
By Meenakshi Mukherjee.
Penguin Books.
Pages 385. Rs 399.
"When I read Mr
Dutt’s Economic History of India, I wept, and as I think of it again
my heart sickens ... .",
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi in Hind Swaraj.
THE
story of India’s exploitation had been told and retold by many like
Dadabhai Naoroji, Justice Ranade and G.V.Joshi. But R.C.Dutt truly
came into his own as a master critic of the British when he backed up
with research the open secret that India had been the richest nation
in the world till the British came in.
Life
in a metro
Reviewed by Ravia Gupta
Neti, Neti
By Anjum Hasan.
Roli Books.
Pages 287. Rs 295.
THE
title Neti, Neti has its roots in Hinduism, and in particular
Jnana Yoga and Advaita Vedanta, which refers to a chant or mantra,
meaning "not this, not this", or "neither this, nor
that".
On
a long trail of destruction
Reviewed by D. S. Cheema
Seeds of Terror
By Gretchen Peters.
Hachette India.
Pages 302. Rs 495.
SO
much has been written about the Taliban and al Qaeda since 9/11 that
yet another book could be mistaken as the same run of the mill book.
However, this book has made a valiant effort to dissect an extremely
difficult subject.
SHORT
TAKES
Reviewed by Randeep Wadehra
Security Implications of
Climate Change
by IDSA Academic Foundation & IDSA.
Pages 192. Rs 695.
Warming
up to writing
The climate change summit in
Copenhagen has thrown up not just activists but authors too, with new
books hitting the shelves
AMID
hectic negotiations at a crucial meet in Copenhagen on dealing with
the climate change, a group of global conservation organisations have
come out with a book that highlights the need to save Protected Areas,
which offer a cost-effective solution to the impacts of global
warming.
Tete-a-tete
Nature’s
own
Nonika Singh
NATURE
has been the constant factor in renowned sculptor and painter Shiv
Singh’s life. Both natural elements and nature’s forces were his
guide when as a small boy, growing up in a village Bassi Ghulam
Hussain in Hoshiarpur district he would make objects out of sarkandas
and draw prolifically on sand.
No
words worth
Maitreyee Boruah
At literary fests, I'm introduced as a sex worker, says author Jameela
HER
Malayalam book, translated into English as the Autobiography of a
Sex Worker, sold 13,000 copies within 100 days of its release in
2004 and went through six editions. But even today, bestselling author
Nalini Jameela finds respect hard to come by.
Soaring on scandal
Tiger Woods drives the sales of physics book sky-high
THE
book inside Tiger Woods' wrecked car has seen an increase in sale
after photographs of the accident scene surfaced. The book Get a
Grip on Physics by science writer John Gribbin is up 2,268th
position on the Amazon sales list from 396,224th.
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