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The Future of
Knowledge & Culture
The Future of Knowledge and Culture invites the reader to debate and exchange ideas with some of the most daring thinkers in the world — from Gustavo Esteva, the scholar-activist associated with the Zapatistas, wriitng on grass roots, to Ziauddin Sardar, historian of science and Islamic scholar, exploring the Internet; from Douglas Lummis, radically rethinking existing definitions of democracy, to Manu Kothari and Lopa Mehta, taking on modern medical wisdom of the body, and Majid Rahnema, who stands th conventional idea of poverty on its head.
Chinnery’s Hotel Through a subtle interleaving of the past and the present, Chinnery’s Hotel traverses two continents and three historical periods. After four uneasy decades
in England, the land of her ancestors, Grace returns to the cantonment
of Mhow with Camilia, her dead sister’s daughter. It was in Mhow that
Grace had spent her youth in her parents’ establishment Chinnery’s
Hotel. Mhow, with its polo tournaments, tent-pegging, ballroom dances, Masonic Lodge and whist drives serves as a prototype of cantonments between the wars, where the resident British live in appalling ignorance of the political realities which would dislodge and transplant them to war-ravaged England in 1947. Diplomatic Baggage This book is Brigid Keenan’s
unputdownable account of life with a diplomat husband in various
postings across four continents. Her adventures take us from Ethiopia to
the Caribbean, from India to West Africa and from Syria to Central Asia.
The Golden Door Irish immigrant Will Carthy works as a riveter on the tallest skyscraper in the world, spending his days above the clouds and his nights fighting loneliness. When his half-sister, Isobel, sails out to join him, Will hurries to meet her at Ellis Island, only to find that she seems to have vanished before passing through immigration control. And so Will begins his quest scouring the teeming tenements for the girl who now haunts his dreams. Little by little, though, Will realises that something deeply sinister is at play in Isobel’s disappearance and the answer might rest in an altogether wider arena of social and political ambition. This is Jamieson’s debut novel. |
THE
book attempts to provide a cartography of the contemporary global
framework of knowledge and culture that can tell us where we have
arrived in the new millenium, and where we are headed.
The book challenges us to
rethink the world of the urban, middle-class certainties, suggesting
that an open spirit and the ability to live in multiple, often
contradictory worlds may be the key to our survival in the new century.
Vinay Lal and Ashis Nandy are authors of several books.
An engaging tale of juggling career aspirations, home-making and family
adventures in the world’s furthest spots, the narrative is extremely
funny, sometimes touching and occasionally sad.