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Decoding the
dreamy consciousness
Reviewed by B.L.
Chakoo
Communing with the Gods: Consciousness, Culture and Dreaming
Brain
by Charles Laughlin. Daily Grail Publishing, Australia.
Pages 586. $28.10
We
all dream; we do not understand our dreams, yet we act as if nothing
strange goes on in our sleep minds, strange at least by
"comparison with the logical, purposeful doings of our minds when
we are awake." What actually Erick Fromm meant by this is that
the most common alternative state of consciousness among all of us is
dreaming. All humans sleep, and during sleep they dream, whether or
not they attend to their dreams when they are wide awake.
A
date with gallantry
Reviewed by Geetu Vaid
Lt. Navdeep Singh; Naik
Nar Bahadur Thapa; Capt. Arun Singh Jasrotia; 2nd Lt Raman; Hav.
Bachittar Singh
by Rishi Kumar Aan Comics. Pages 24. Price: Rs 40 (each)
Paramvir Chakra — Manoj Pandey Paramvir Chakra — Somnath
Sharma
by Maj. Gen. Ian Cardozo and Rishi Kumar Roli Books. Pages 32. Rs 99
(each)
In
a world dominated by commercial interests and cut-throat corporate
culture, where ethics and principles are moulded and compromised
conveniently, bravery, sacrifice for the country and dedication to
duty have surely taken a back seat. With stories of scams, secret
deals, exposes and tales of CEOs and biz-whizs flooding bookshelves,
it is not often that one finds the spotlight on real-life heroes.
A
match made in heaven
Reviewed by Aditi Garg
Soul-Mates
by Col. Malvinder Singh Sandhu.
Distributed by purushottam-bookstore.com&power-publishers.com
Pages 264. Rs 350
True
love knows no bounds. It endures the toughest tests, scales the
highest boundaries and flows through time endlessly. On the other hand
savage lust scars for life and there is no pain bigger than to live
through pain inflicted mindlessly by another. There are many who go
through a living hell not just because of their physical and emotional
pain but also because of the stigma that society shamelessly chooses
to impose on the victims of rape. Few find someone who is willing to
overlook it and accept her as a normal, respectable woman who should
not suffer for another's faults.
Feel-good
romantic fluff
Reviewed by Aradhika
Sharma
It's Complex;
by Shoma Narayanan
Rupa. Pages 262. Rs 295
There
is something about a book that's quite unashamedly a love story
without pretences or too many complications - a story that sets out to
capture the reader's momentary romantic proclivities and nothing else.
That there are no lessons to be learnt or that the characters are
stereotyped is immaterial. Shoma Narayanan, the author is a published
Mills and Boon writer which probably explains the totally feel-good
fluff of the book.
A
press of one’s own
There
are two rooms in the National Portrait Gallery’s Virginia Woolf
exhibition which show, under glass, the beautifully designed covers of
the books that Woolf published after she set up her own press with her
husband, Leonard Woolf.
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