What young india wants: selected essays and columns
Chetan Bhagat
Rupa, 2012, pp 181, 140
This book analyses issues facing India and offers solutions. Bhagat asks — unless we are all in agreement on what it is going to take to make our country better, how will things ever change?
khadi: gandhi's mega symbol of subversion
Peter Gonsalves
Sage, 2012, pp 290 795
This book investigates the power of a symbol
to qualitatively transform society by studying
Mahatma Gandhi's use of clothing as a metaphor for unity, empowerment and liberation from imperial subjugation.
The puffin book of 100 great indians
Penguin, 2012, pp 344, 250
Featuring some of the most iconic personalities from the fields of art, literature, science, politics, economics, film and entertainment, this is an engaging
reference book from which one can learn about the contributions of some of the greatest Indians, across the ages.
The taming of women
P Sivakami
Penguin, 2012, pp 254, 299
As Anandhayi gives birth to her child, her husband Periyannan sleeps with a woman he has summoned to spend the night with him. Women of many generations live in that house, with the tyrannical Periyannan always trying to bring them under his control.
Farishta: a novel
Patricia McArdle
Penguin, 2012, pp 404, 499
With her career at dead-end, diplomat Angela Morgan must take the one assignment available — at a remote British army outpost in Afghanistan. She aids refugees in the region. She becomes their farishta and discovers how to finally put her grief behind her.
Another man's wife
Manjul Bajaj
Hachette, 2012, pp 284, 350
A contractor at a dam site brings home a tribal woman and holds captive another man's wife; a kathak dancer trapped in a marriage redefines notions of fidelity; a young married couple beleaguered by infertility desperately tries to reignite their romance...
The day i stopped drinking milk
Sudha Murthy
Penguin, 2012, pp 212, 199
Successful Vishnu never knows happiness; talkative Venkat has no time to listen; a girl goes on a life-changing train journey; a poor woman provides water to people in a drought-stricken area; a woman in Odisha teaches a life lesson the author will never forget.
From the ruins of empire: the revolt against the west and remaking of asia
Pankaj Mishra
Penguin, 2012, pp 356, 699
The Victorian period, viewed in the West as a time
period of self-confident progress, was experienced by Asians as a period of catastrophe. Through this book, Pankaj Mishra allows the reader to see the events anew, through the eyes of journalists, poets, radicals and charismatics who criss-crossed Europe and Asia.
Arab spring libyan winter
Vijay Prashad
Leftword, 2012, pp 271 300
This brief analysis situates the assault on Libya in the context of the winds of revolt that swept through the Middle East in the Spring of 2011. It explores the recent history of the Qaddafi regime, the social forces who opposed him, and the role of the United Nations, NATO, and the rest of the world's superpowers in the bloody civil war that ensued.
Chetan Bhagat
Rupa, 2012, pp 181, 140
This book analyses issues facing India and offers solutions. Bhagat asks — unless we are all in agreement on what it is going to take to make our country better, how will things ever change?
khadi: gandhi's mega symbol of subversion
Peter Gonsalves
Sage, 2012, pp 290 795
This book investigates the power of a symbol
to qualitatively transform society by studying
Mahatma Gandhi's use of clothing as a metaphor for unity, empowerment and liberation from imperial subjugation.
The puffin book of 100 great indians
Penguin, 2012, pp 344, 250
Featuring some of the most iconic personalities from the fields of art, literature, science, politics, economics, film and entertainment, this is an engaging
reference book from which one can learn about the contributions of some of the greatest Indians, across the ages.
The taming of women
P Sivakami
Penguin, 2012, pp 254, 299
As Anandhayi gives birth to her child, her husband Periyannan sleeps with a woman he has summoned to spend the night with him. Women of many generations live in that house, with the tyrannical Periyannan always trying to bring them under his control.
Farishta: a novel
Patricia McArdle
Penguin, 2012, pp 404, 499
With her career at dead-end, diplomat Angela Morgan must take the one assignment available — at a remote British army outpost in Afghanistan. She aids refugees in the region. She becomes their farishta and discovers how to finally put her grief behind her.
Another man's wife
Manjul Bajaj
Hachette, 2012, pp 284, 350
A contractor at a dam site brings home a tribal woman and holds captive another man's wife; a kathak dancer trapped in a marriage redefines notions of fidelity; a young married couple beleaguered by infertility desperately tries to reignite their romance...
The day i stopped drinking milk
Sudha Murthy
Penguin, 2012, pp 212, 199
Successful Vishnu never knows happiness; talkative Venkat has no time to listen; a girl goes on a life-changing train journey; a poor woman provides water to people in a drought-stricken area; a woman in Odisha teaches a life lesson the author will never forget.
From the ruins of empire: the revolt against the west and remaking of asia
Pankaj Mishra
Penguin, 2012, pp 356, 699
The Victorian period, viewed in the West as a time
period of self-confident progress, was experienced by Asians as a period of catastrophe. Through this book, Pankaj Mishra allows the reader to see the events anew, through the eyes of journalists, poets, radicals and charismatics who criss-crossed Europe and Asia.
Arab spring libyan winter
Vijay Prashad
Leftword, 2012, pp 271 300
This brief analysis situates the assault on Libya in the context of the winds of revolt that swept through the Middle East in the Spring of 2011. It explores the recent history of the Qaddafi regime, the social forces who opposed him, and the role of the United Nations, NATO, and the rest of the world's superpowers in the bloody civil war that ensued.