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Why you
can’t love thy neighbour
Reviewed by Ram Verma
Pakistan: Our Difficult Neighbour and India’s Islamic Dimensions
by Brig Darshan Khullar (Retd).
Vij Books. Pages 234. Rs 850
God
created Eve by taking out a rib from Adam’s body. Eve was, in
Adam’s words, "Flesh of my flesh, bone of my bone"; she
became his soulmate and companion through thick and thin. Likewise,
the British created Pakistan out of India’s flesh and bone, but from
the day one Pakistan became India’s sworn enemy. There is
unmitigated angst in Pakistani minds against India. What a stinging
irony it is!
Heart
of the matter
Reviewed by Somya Abrol
From the Window of Gelato
by Dr Jaideep Singh Chadha.
Partridge. Pages 246. Rs 430
When
a Vijay Rattan awardee and practicing doctor comes out with his
seventh book, you know he’d have delved deep into the society he
inhabits. Dr Jaideep Singh Chadha’s From the Window of Gelato does
precisely that, ever so delicately.
Of
friendship & betrayal
Reviewed by
Kanwalpreet
Red Shadow
by Paul Dowswell.
Bloomsbury. Pages 265. Rs 299
The
plot is set in Moscow and takes you back in time to the year 1941,
when the Communist Party was talking about heralding a "world
revolution". It was the time when bourgeois (the middle-class or
the prosperous class) were eliminated and the party of the proletariat
(the working class) introduced a classless and stateless society.
Being
the change
Reviewed by P. S.
Rekhi
One Hundred Days: Her Quest, My Cure
by Shweta Modgill.
4 Hour Press Pages 150. Rs 233
Normally
people leave their jobs when they get better avenues or hit the
jackpot but Neel, an engineer by profession, who is also the
protagonist of the book, liberates herself from the clutches of the
corporate world. She wants to get rid of the tedium of 9 to 6 routine
job. Though she is not a shirker, but she wants to try something
different and live her life. She is totally a bohemian who wants to
convert her dreams into reality.
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