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Indian Parliament: Shaping the Foreign Policy by KV Prasad. KW Publishers. Pages 217. Rs 1,580

Parliament of India plays a key role in shaping foreign policy. While the book makes broad brushstrokes on the deliberations across 75 years, the focus is to evaluate the approach on three specific dimensions from the prism of key decisions that have a lasting imprint on India’s foreign policy — the Indian Peacekeeping Force in Sri Lanka, the creation of the World Trade Organisation and the India-United States Civil Nuclear Cooperation.

When Maya goes offline all of a sudden, her friends are shocked. As their enquiry into her absence gets increasingly frantic, Maya finds herself oscillating between fear and honesty, therapy and godmen, superstition and nostalgia. Crushed by generational trauma and long-hidden secrets, she chases faith and love in the most hopeless places. ‘The Other Sister’ explores young lives in disarray; a social media generation that’s hyper-connected yet isolated and misunderstood.

While pursuing art journalism for 25 years, SD Sharma met a range of artists — all legends in their fields. The short pieces on them offer a glimpse into their lives, their profound insights and remarkable achievements in their respective fields. What makes the book interesting is the fact that many of these legends have long passed away. For instance, poet Shiv Kumar Batalvi, ghazal singer Jagjit Singh, singer Pt Jaspal, thespian Habib Tanvir and satirist Jaspal Bhatti, among others.