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Voluminous
and informative but not revealing
Reviewed by Roopinder Singh
Hard Choices: A Memoir
by Hillary Clinton
Simon and Schuster. Pages 635. Rs 999.
You
have to make hard choices to be a winner, and no one knows this better
than a person who has just lost a race. Hillary Clinton knew she was
losing ground in the run-up to the 2008 Democratic nomination to a
fellow Democrat, Barack Obama. At nearly the end of their gruelling
campaign, the two met each other. "We stared at each other like
two teenagers on an awkward first date. Finally, Barack broke the
ice..." He asked her to help him unite the party and to help him
win the election. She did so by convincingly endorsing his
candidature. After the election which they both fought as allies, he
became the 44th President of the US.
When suspense keeps you hooked
Reviewed by Mehak Uppal
Happily Murdered...
by Rasleen Syal
Srishti Publishers & Distributors.
Pages 246 Rs 195
In
her list of acknowledgements, Rasleen Syal mentions Agatha Christie,
whom she calls her guru and inspiration. As we glide through her book Happily
Murdered`85. falling in the genre of crime fiction, it becomes
clear that it was not for nothing that she named Christie at the very
beginning.
Betrayal of the worst kind
Reviewed by Priyanka Singh
Daughter by Court Order
by Ratna
Fingerprint!
Pages 369. Rs 250
What
sort of sinister mother would forsake her daughter? What would drive a
woman to hurl invectives at her growing daughter, annihilating her
innocence, childhood and all of her adult years? For wealth, which
mother would trade her daughter's happiness and obliterate her
presence from the family tree? A stepmother perhaps, but it is
unbelievable of a mother who bore you; the one who was meant to
protect you from the world.
Khaps: A serious, critical look
Reviewed by Rajbir Deswal
Khap Panchayat and Modern Age
by D. R. Chaudhry
National Book Trust, India
Pages 160. Rs 160
Khap
panchayats of Haryana have become a hot topic for discussion,
thanks to the aberrations that have crept in, self-acquired
arbitration and issuance of edicts bordering on kangaroo justice and
tribal dispensation, in their system. Their might has stifled analysis
and criticism. Confronting them and questioning their mores and
methods in their land is unthinkable. They have the audacity to
ostracise and override.
Welcome
the change
Marvel
is set to introduce a black Captain America by replacing Steve Rogers
with Sam Wilson, better known as the Falcon. The announcement comes
shortly after the US publisher's plans to make Thor a woman were
revealed. Marvel is aiming for greater diversity in its big titles.
Comic book fans had long-rumoured the shift from Rogers to his old
ally Wilson, with the latter set to take up the founding Avenger's
patriotic shield this October.
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