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Keeping
a martyr’s memory alive
We see how the young Bhagat
Singh became a revolutionary as we journey along with him on his
short-but-action-packed life. Here was a precocious young boy,
buffeted by the forces that shaped events around him.
Saheed Bhagat Singh
by Harish Dhillon.
Indus Source Books. Pages 244. Rs 225.
Reviewed by Roopinder Singh
Romancing
history
The Yellow Emperor’s Cure
by Kunal Basu.
Picador India
Pages 325. Rs 499
Reviewed by Manisha Gangahar
Of
love and loss
Can Love Happen Twice?
by Ravinder Singh
Penguin Metro Reads.
Pages 214. Rs 125.
Reviewed by Balwinder
Kaur
Ground-breaking
work
The Turning Point
by Fritjof Capra.
Flamingo.
Pages 516. Rs 499.
Reviewed by Kuldip Singh Dhir
Poet
of the pulse of Punjab
It may be
impossible to take Patar out of Punjab or Punjab out of poet Surjit
Patar, but despite being rooted in Punjabi soil the poet has a voice
nuanced in humanism that transcends regional barriers. Neelam
Mansingh Chowdhry describes how she collaborated with Patar for
her various theatre productions
THE
award of the 2012 Padma Shri to Surjit Patar is indeed a proud
moment for every Punjabi, as his identification with Punjab is
inextricably woven into the imagery and syntax of his poems.
German
court bans Mein Kampf excerpts
Moscow:
A court in Munich has banned British publisher Peter McGee from
printing excerpts in Germany from Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf because it
breaches copyright laws.
Goa
the cradle of Indo-western wear
VETERAN
designer Wendell Rodricks has carried the sartorial legacy of Goa to a
new level by documenting it in Moda Goa - a first-of-its kind pictorial
and illustrative fashion chronicle of the state. He says Goa was the
cradle of Indo-Western couture.
Beauty
and terror of the flatlands
TEN
years ago, Jon McGregor’s first short story was published in Granta
magazine. In Winter The Sky was about a teenager who, driving back home
after a romantic tryst, is so distracted by the warm memory of the girl
he has just kissed, that he runs over a man and kills him.
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