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Saturday | April 19, 2014

BOOK REVIEW

Ibn Khaldun; Rumi by Syed Farid Alatas; Annamarie Schimmel

Oxford University Press India
Pages: 176;136
Rs. 450;395

Against the tyranny of Western historical discourse

Jalil Mehdi | 12th Apr

The need for a history of global sciences, arts and "modernity" emerged from a series of novel critiques in the latter half of the 20th century. These...

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BOOK REVIEW

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Erotic (mis)adventures of the Sanskritised kind

NIDHI GUPTA | 12th Apr

The Courtesan’s Keeper;The Seduction of Shiva

Kshemendra, A.N.D. Haksar (tr.);Various authors, A.N.D. Haksar (tr.)
Penguin India
Pages: 200;256
Rs. 299;399

Can you imagine Lord Shiva — that vehicle of destruction and one-third of the powerful holy trinit...

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A child soldier shoots from the hip

ADITYA MANI JHA | 12th Apr

Guns On My Red Earth

Swati Sengupta

Red Turtle/ Rupa

Pages: 172

Rs. 195

At the Bookaroo festival for children's literature last year in Delhi, Swati Sengupta spoke at an ev...

One oven-fresh bestseller coming up

Atul Dev | 12th Apr

You Were My Crush

Durjoy Dutta, Orvana Ghai

Penguin Metro Reads

Pages: 224

Rs. 140

Durjoy Dutta's books are bestsellers before they are released. The author knows how to engage his re...

Dancing in Paris, at large in Kabul

ADITYA MANI JHA | 12th Apr

Kabul Disco (Books 1 and 2) Writer/ Artist: Nicolas Wild publisher: HarperCollins India In 2005, French comics writer/artist Nicolas Wild left Pari...

Are you a blurber? Take the Shteyngart test to find out

Gilette Burgess | 29th Mar

The game: Spot the fake blurbs from the ones written by Gary Shteyngart, the author of Absurdistan, The Russian Debutante's Handbook, Super Sad True L...

The Last Days of Jesus

Michael Lewis

Henry Holt and Co. (BYR)

Pages: 320

Price: 1,202

Conservative commentator Bill O’Reilly’s Killing Jesus in a specially illustrated version.

THE UPSTART CROW

Manasi Subramaniam

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Books that summoned childhood at will

5th Apr

(This is the second in a two-part series on Western literature for children.) I wrote, last fortnight, about the d...

LEFT OF COOL

AISHWARYA SUBRAMANIAN

www.sunday-guardian.com /profile/aishwarya-subramanian

We need to talk about Mom and Dad: Parents in Blyton-land

5th Apr

A young couple have twin children, male and female. Preferring boys to girls, they care far more for their son than...

Words without Borders: Where Are the Women in Translation?
The Telegraph UK: Don’t make fun of renowned Dan Brown
Open Letters Monthly: The Landscapes Through Which We Traveled
The Paris Review: Harold Pinter, interviewed by Larry Bensky
The New Yorker: A new portrait of Henry James’s “The Portrait of a Lady.”

It is convenient for people to forget about Chernobyl

ADITYA MANI JHA

" It is convenient for people to forget about Chernobyl"

Ingrid Storholmen

Norwegian poet and literary critic

In 2011, as part of our college curriculum, my fourth-year geology class visited Jadugoda in Jharkha...

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January 2014

India At Turning Point

India International Centre - Multipurpose Hall, 40 Max Muller Marg Lodhi Estate, New Delhi-110003

Rupa Publications International cordially invites you to launch of 'India At Turning Point' The Road To Good Governance by T.S.R. Subramanian on 07th January, 2014.

"Writing is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do it for your friends, and then you do it for money."

Virginia Woolf

Before the Law -Franz Kafka read by Orson Wells