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This writer offers a slice of the world
Patricia Schultz, an American travel writer whose huge global compendium 1,000 Places to
See Before You Die sold three million copies is all set to publish a sequel to her work. She talks to Nick Duerden about travelling to the most exotic places alone
In
1995, Patricia Schultz, an American travel writer, began to work on a
book that was less travel guide than it was global compendium. Her
See. Schultz liked neither the title nor the number. "If you
write about the 100 best places in the world, you write about all the
usual suspects: London, Paris, Beijing," she says. "But add a
zero, and you suddenly throw yourself open to the entire world."The
result was 1,000 Places to See Before You Die.
The many facets of HRD
Reviewed by Sanchita Bansal
Economics of Human Resource
Development in India
by Dr M. M .Goel.
V. K. Global Publications. Pages 244. Rs 300.
To
face
the challenges of globalisation and competition, human resource
development (HRD) is the need of the day because sustainable economic
development can be achieved only through investment in human beings.
This book provides a multi-layered holistic analysis of HRD and its
economics, with a special reference to India. It deals with all facets
of HRD such as education, health, environment, tourism, urbanisation,
migration, housing, food security and women’s empowerment.
Thriller
captures Bihar’s wild, feudal days
Bihar
is a goldmine of drama. A ruthless thakur, a landowner with
vendetta in his blood and an unarmed man with a fortune to his name are
chasing a rare diamond, each for different reasons. Bihar has perhaps
spun its first homegrown thriller, a Western-style potboiler, by
son-of-the soil writer Hemant Kumar.
Dickens will always regale
Even though the Victorian writer lived more than 200 years ago, his work is still relevant as the traits of his
much-loved characters are universal, writes Nivedita Ganguli
Charles
Dickens was born nearly 200
years ago, on February 7, 1812. His bicentenary is being celebrated in a
big way on screen and stage, in print, street festivals and exhibitions.
Call of the land
Gurvinder Singh, whose debut Punjabi film Anhe Ghore Da Daan, based on Gurdial Singh’s novel of the same name, talks of his cinematic journey and connect with Punjab to
Aruti Nayar
Meeting
Gurvinder Singh, is a
surprise because he is the very antithesis of the usual image of a
Punjabi filmmaker. Modest and a trifle diffident, he opens up gradually.
This despite the fact that his debut feature film Anhe Ghore Da Daan
premiered in "Orizzonti" at the 68th Venice
International Film Festival in September last year.
Mona Lisa’s ‘twin sister’ found 500 years later
Spanish
curators claim the Mona Lisa at the Prado in Madrid was executed by an
artist in Leonardo da Vinci’s workshop at the same time as the
original. It is the first known copy of the most famous painting in
history, and a discovery that curators at Spain’s national art museum
believe sheds new light on the creation of the masterpiece, according to
The Independent.
short takes
Discussing development and culture
Our
planet’s population has
exceeded the seven-billion mark. Out of these, more than three billion
people live "in a condition of underutilisation of talent and
resources, and deprivation," in other words, on the margins.
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