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Meet the PM's
biographer
Vandana Shukla
Prime
Minister Manmohan Singh has found his Boswell within the family. His
daughter Daman Singh is writing a biography on the journey of her
parents.
Psychoanalyst on the
couch
A Book of Memory Confessions
and Reflections
by Sudhir Kakar
Penguin/Viking
Pages: 318 Rs. 499
Aruti Nayar
When
Sudhir Kakar talked of sexuality in the early 1980s, the Indian middle
class was still in a sexual purdah and the bedrooms had not moved into
the drawingrooms because the invasion from the skies was yet to come. So
any mention of the ‘S’ word evoked not a blas`E9 respose but a
gauche, furtive and cloaked-in-shame reaction. A Book of Memory
is not only an effort by Kakar to narrate the story of his life but also
to posit the journey of his life and career against the backdrop of
social and historical events which were life changing.
‘Meaningful poetry
lies at heart of ghazal’
SD Sharma
interviews ghazal maestro Chandan Das for whom singing is an expression
of universal human emotions
"Ghazal mein zaat bhi
hai aur kayanaat bhi hai/ Hamari baat `A0bhi hai aur tumhari baat bhi
hai`85" Endorsing the essence of poet Ale Ahmad Saroor’s
couplet which defines ghazal, the acclaimed ghazal maestro Chandan Das
maintains that this genre of poetry is an expression of the entire
spectrum of human emotions, both personal and universal.
Tribute to a legacy
Jobs well done
Steve Jobs
By Walter Isaacson.
Little Brown; Hardback.
Pages 627, Rs 899
Chandramohan
This
is the only no-holds-barred, authentic story of one of the technology
greats based on direct interviews with Steve Jobs and his family
members, colleagues and even long-time adversaries like Bill Gates. In
man’s quest for advancement; he is in the threesome league of Henry
Ford & Einstein.
Readyreckoner for
harried NRI wives
Lives on the Brink: Bridging
the Chasm between Two Great Nations, India and United States.
Anu Peshawaria Diamond Pocket
Books Rs 250.Pages 216
Nonika Singh
Harrowed
NRI wives and their battered lives have often made us sit up and take
notice of their plight. But when a lawyer Anu Peshawaria, based in the
US, picks up her pen to dovetail their predicament, the
experience is not only revealing but also educative.
Managing human
resources across borders
International Human Resource
Management
By Anne-Wil Harzing and Ashly H. Pinnington.
Sage. Pages 641. Rs 695.
D. S. Cheema
In
the next phase of competition in a knowledge-based economy, people are
going to be the biggest assets, where they can make or break an
organisation. Thus, it is very important to leverage on each and every
employee’s ability and then synergise them in order to create a
tremendous force to reckon with. And this has to be done in an
environment of unlimited world economic growth and opportunity in a new,
borderless, globalised economy.
Scholarly work on
India's foreign policy
Does the Elephant Dance?
Contemporary Indian Foreign Policy
By David M. Malone.
Oxford University Press.
Pages xxii + 425. Rs 695
Parshotam Mehra
Axiomatically,
the foreign policy of a country is conditioned not only by its domestic
compulsions but also its neighbourhood, and the larger international
milieu in which it functions. More, geographical location as also
internal and external, security challenges and economic factors, both at
home and abroad, play an increasingly important role. It should follow
that it is necessary to disentangle this rich variety of strands that
impinge and need careful analysis before a clear pattern may be said to
emerge.
In memory of
Shakespeare
The tragedy of Arthur
By Arthur Phillips Duckworth,
(£ sterling)16.99
Jonathan Gibbs
In
terms of sheer audaciousness there will have been few novels this year
to play. This, the Tragedy of Arthur itself, is presented
complete with notes and editor's preface laying out its claims to
authenticity.
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