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The
making of an icon
Reviewed by Harbans
Singh
Worshipping False Gods By Arun Shourie Harper Collins. Pages 664. Rs
599m
Often
Mayawati, the BSP leader and former Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh,
is reviled for the ubiquitous purse that she carries. Even more often
B.R.Ambedkar is subjected to severe criticism for the western attire
that he always wore. They point out that while all leaders of the
freedom struggle gave up their western clothes in order to identify
themselves with the common man of the country, he had, unmindful of
the lot of the common man, continued to ape the foreign masters.
Evolution
of a designer-raconteur
Reviewed by Aradhika
Sharma
The Green Room by Wendell Rodricks Rupa.Pages 356. Rs 595
Fashion,
designs, models, fashion lines, fashion merchandising, creativity,
creations and the hard work that goes into all of it. If you want to
get into the real world of fashion, then Wendell Rodricks will take
you there and with much more authenticity and much less salaciousness
than filmmaker Madhur Bhandarkar did in his film, Fashion.
A
cross between reality and fantasy
Reviewed by Shalini
Rawat
In Haleema's Words By Fatima Ahmed Rupa. Pages 431. Rs 375
As
most of us cross the threshold of youth, we search for meanings to
whatever life serves us. The author on the other hand has to grope in
the mind’s recesses for words to shine a light. The pictures that
turn over and over of what has been, could have been or could be are
apparently not enough. She has to flesh them out with words.
Married
to custom
Reviewed by Amarinder
Gill
How It Happened By Shazaf Fatima Haider Penguin. Pages 311. Rs
399
Marriages
are made in heaven but arranged marriages are fixed by families and
finding the right match is a cumbersome process. How It Happened is
an interesting saga on finding the correct partner for youngsters of
marriageable age in the family. The book revolves around the Bandian
family based in Karachi with Dadi, the matriarch at the helm of
affairs. All the Bandian forefathers have had perfect arranged matches
and Dadi believes in no "love-shove" and "mordren
nonsense."
The
solitary pursuit of a goalkeeper
The Outsider, by Jonathan
Wilson By Oliver Burkeman. Canongate £8.99
In
what is quintessentially a team pursuit, the goalkeeper is an anomaly,
the one player left in isolation for much of the game, "aloof,
solitary, impassive", in the words of Vladimir Nabokov, one of
many literary figures to have stood between the posts.  TOP 5
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