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Keeps you hooked like a
riveting match
Reviewed by Harbans Singh
The Big Fix
by Vikas Singh Westland. Pages 230. Rs
250
A lot of Indians are
going to enjoy reading Vikas Singh's The Big Fix, not the least
because it has readable T20 cricket as the subject of the novel. He
has successfully blended the passion of the millions with the suspense
of fixing in cricket and other attendant sins and crime in a
reader-friendly manner.
A
look at what's on celebs’ minds
Reviewed by Nonika
Singh
Freeze Frame
by Anupama Chopra Om Books International. Pages 358. Rs 395
Can
transcripts of television interviews make a book? The answer
surprisingly is a resounding "yes," provided the writer/
interviewer happens to be India's best-known film critic, Anupama
Chopra, and her subjects even more popular men and women, the rich and
famous glitterati of Bollywood and Hollywood.
Phantasma
and the fantastic
Reviewed by Vikrant
Parmar
Kabuko the Djinn
by Hamraz Ahsan Fingerprint! Pages 289. Rs 295
when
imagination takes flight, the sky is the limit. In the case of author
Hamraz Ahsan, it veers towards the occult and enters a world beyond
the temporal. Kabuko the Djinn, Ahsan's debut novel, is indeed
a fertile flight for the senses.
The
idea of an ethical India
Reviewed by M.M. Goel
Ethics, Integrity and Values in Public Service
Ed Ramesh K Arora New Age International. Pages 498. Rs 299
There
is logic and rationale to justify ethics, integrity and values in
public service as we are victim of bad governance at all levels of
operation in the various sectors of the Indian economy. There is
exponential growth of corruption. There is devaluation of moral values
more than the Indian rupee.
Exploring
Muslim femininity
Reviewed by Rajesh
Kumar Aggarwal
The Pakistan Project: A Feminist Perspective on Nation and
Identity
by Rubina Saigol, Women Unlimited. Pages 357. Rs 650
State-sponsored
religious fundamentalism had serious, detrimental and lasting
consequences for all sections of society, more so from a feminine
perspective, in Pakistan. The initial chapters give a historical
perspective on cultural nationalism and lists the views of four
Pakistani scholars on Muslim womanhood and manhood.
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