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A tale within the
tales
Reviewed by Vikrant Parmar
The Teller of Tales
by Bhaskar Ghose Penguin. Pages 265. Rs 299
Certain
relations go beyond the temporal and in time, transmute into the
ethereal. Just as the case with the protagonist in Bhaskar Ghose’s
novel The Teller of Tales, Tapan Biswas, and his friend Arunava
Varman.
Of
healing and mythology
Reviewed
by Jayanti Roy
Reason and Medicine: Art and
Science of Healing from Antiquity to Modern Times
by Daya Ram Varma
Three Essays Collective, New Delhi. Pages 354. Rs 500
In
my limited interaction with physicians of all hues- allopath,
homeopath or ayurvedic practitioners, I have often wondered about the
narrow view they hold of their practice, reducing it only to
prescription of drugs. The holistic view of looking at medicine as a
science and art of healing is sadly lacking in most of them.
Gentleman
with a cause
Reviewed by Khushwant S. Gill
And What Remains in the End:
The Memoirs of an Unrepentant Civil Servant
by Robin Gupta
Rupa. Pages 287. Rs 350
The
title of Robin Gupta's memoir is deceptively banal. It evokes images
of yet another autobiography by a retired civil servant, replete with
tinges of self-serving regret and faux rebellion. Happily, we are
introduced to an uplifting spectacle of a life well-lived and, as
important, to a man who can write.
Rowling’s
plot unravelled
Reviewed by M Rajivlochan
The
literary mole hunt to discover who outed superstar author JK Rowling
as the creator of a detective novel written under a nom de plume was
in danger of turning into a better whodunnit than the book itself.
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