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Bemused
Down Under
Deepika Gurdev
Down
Under in a Sunburned Country
by Bill Bryson. 2001. Price $15. Pages 335
I
haven’t stopped laughing! Its Bryson back again with a
vengeance. His incomparable humour and unmatched style never
comprising on his wonderful insights.
Trials
& triumphs of immigrants
Cookie Maini
From Textile Mills to Taxi Ranks: Experiences of
Migration, Labour and Social Change
by Virinder S Kalra. Ashgate, UK. Pages 229. Price not
mentioned
ASIANS
have formed the largest chunk of migrants to the United
Kingdom in the postcolonial period, over the years, their
number and status has soared to the extent that, they are the
major constituents and catalysts for Britain’s
transformation to a multicultural society.
Tuning
in to the lilting notes of classical music
G. K Pandey
The
Cooking of Music
by Sheila Dhar Permanent Black
Publications Pages - 114 Rs 195.
SHEILA
Dhar's book The cooking of music reveals, in ample
measure, her personal trademark of perceptiveness about
foibles of character, nuances of ambience and subtleties of
the musical culture. She uses culinary metaphors to convey the
taste and flavour of a specific melody.
Implications
of the inevitability of WTO
P. K. Vasudeva
World Trade
Organisation: An Indian Perspective
by Jayanta Bagchi, Eastern Law House, Kolkata, 2001,
pp. 243, Rs 400.
THE
most controversial subject today among the developing
countries especially India is the World Trade Organisation (WTO)
and its implications. Right from swadeshi (saffron) to
red, political parties of different hues are critical of this
multilateral trade organisation and its programme of
implementation of the results of Uruguay Round negotiations.
Chance
comes to those who know what they want
Vinaya Katoch
Manhas
Spy on the roof of the world
by Sydney Wignall. Published by Penguin Books P Ltd.,
Community Centre, Panchsheel Park, New Delhi - 110 017. Pages
267. Rs295.
MAYBE
when Sydney Wignall grabbed the chance of a lifetime for doing
something for the country he so admired, he had no idea as to
the great risk he had undertaken in his enthusiasm and love
for mountaineering. Throughout his book, Spy on the roof of
the world, the writer's character of a strong-minded,
self-willed person and a man of great courage comes to the
fore.
SIGNS &
SIGNATURE
My
surrogate mother
Darshan Singh Maini
IN
the course of one’s life scores of persons touch the
imagination and depart, and scores stay on in memory to
sweeten a dream or two. However, there are some who, in an
ineffable way, wind themselves into the armature of one’s
thought, and keep the conduits of the spirit flowing.
WRITE VIEW
Resolving
the problems of alienation & identity crisis
Randeep Wadehra
Dalit Identity and
Politics
edited by Ghanshyam Shah. Sage Publications, New Delhi. Pages: 363. Price: Rs. 295/-
REPRESSION
is a primal blot on human civilisation. It takes many forms.
In some societies there has been a denial of recognition, of
social and political opportunities and of cultural autonomy.
In other societies, repression has taken the form of
ascription of a stigmatised status on the basis of gender,
class, age, race, religion and caste.
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