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The
enemy lurking within
Reviewed by Balwinder
Kaur
Roll of Honour By Amandeep Sandhu.Rupa Publications. Pages 237. Rs
275.
The
course of Appu’s life was clear cut. For six years he had followed
the rules, toed the line and carefully walked the tightrope between
being a teacher’s pet and popular student hoping to be school
prefect.
Travelling
to the last frontier
Reviewed by Vikrant
Parmar
Ladakh Changing, yet
Unchanged By Romesh Bhattacharji. Rupa. Pages 280. Rs 595
Travelling
to Ladakh has been a dream for many, a select few have realised it and
a lucky few realise it often. Then there are some who live by the
dream and die without realising it; for some it’s just god’s land
in the lap of the grand Himalayas that they have read about in a few
pages that make for fantasy.
Of
spouses and friends
Reviewed by Aditi Garg
Grow Up Moon! By
Suditi Jindal. Snab Publications. Pages 279. Rs 250
marriage
is a great transformer; you may desperately try to cling on to the
shreds of normal life you had before marriage but it tests you, pushes
you, makes you cry, makes you happy and changes your routine beyond
recognition. Many a time, it gets very difficult for women to remain
in touch with their friends, especially if they move out of town with
their spouse.
A
cat-alogue
Reviewed by Parbina
Rashid
The Wildlings by
Nilanjana Roy.Illustrations by Prabha Mallya. Aleph. Pages 31. Rs
595
Social
networking through whiskers, having out-of-body experiences, following
an unwritten code of conduct and indulging in blood sports — who
could have imagined that the world of the street cats is as exciting
and as hi-tech as ours? Not many for sure.
Clash
of the titans
Reviewed by Nirbhai
Singh
Mahatma Gandhi and Subhas
Chandra Bose — A Clash of Ideology By Ramesh Kumar. Regal
Publications.Pages xvii+246. Rs 950
The
book is very interesting because it deals with apparently antagonistic
ideologies of two patriotic sons of India who wanted to realise the
independence of India. Both had "a vision of free India where
there would be no exploitation and the basic necessities of life would
be satisfied without any discrimination."
Satire
on media, army
Toploader, By Ed
O'Loughlin Quercus £8.99
Toploader
is a satire on the military, the media, and the war on terror, set in
an unnamed controlled zone where the inhabitants are regularly shelled
and bombed by drones. The plot features an explosive donkey, a
washing-machine equipped with advanced military technology, and
imaginary Iranian spies.
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