Author's travel impressions of some cities and towns in India.

Where the streets lead

Travel

Sarayu Ahuja

Asia

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Rajiv Gandhi and Rama's Kingdom

VED MEHTA

Are dam s political symbols?  With its 18 October 2000 judgment, the Supreme Court allowed construction to resume on the Sardar Sarovar dam. But controversy still rages around the dam and any chance of debate between the widely differing opinions on it is drowned in angry rhetoric. Where does that leave the common man in the affected states, or even elsewhere in the country? Seeking answers, activist and journalist Dilip D Souza searches beyond polemics for an understanding of the Narmada project.  Analysing documents put out by the dam authorities themselves; the author builds his simple thesis--that regardless of conflicting feelings on the dam, the way it has been conceived and is being built should be a matter of grave, general concern. He finds a pervasive haziness in the way key issues recurring in this material are addressed the statements of aims (the lifeline of Kutch and Saurashtra the numbers of people displaced, the benefits claimed for the dam. Besides, there are innumerable contradictions in the figures presented. Further, D Souza s first-hand experiences among affected people only underline this gap between paper and fact, and the inescapable conclusion he reaches is that dams are being built less for solving the problems of water, floods and power, and more for the sake of politics.  Such findings in themselves, besides the alternative strategies described, constitute the strongest case against dams like the Sardar Sarovar. Passionate and incisive, this book becomes a searing indictment of the type of development we have pursued since Independence.

Narmada Dammed: An Inquiry into the Politics of Development

Politics & Social Sciences

D'Souza, Dilip

Politics & Government

Yellow Hisbiscus

Rukmini Bhaya Nair

For 18 years the author has worked to find ways of preventing communal conflagrations, and where violence has already occured, to alleviate the distress and sense of hopelessness that such events leave in their wake. She has worked in Bhagalpur, Mumbai and Ahmnabad, scenes of some of the worst riots. in this engrossing and topical book she addresses the realities that escapes the newspaper headlines, the suffering that continues long after the events have dimmed from our memories.

Healing Streams

Sushobha Barve

Social Sciences

A Variety of Abscences

Dom Moraes

Imtiaz Dharker grew up a Muslim Calvinist in a Lahori household in Glasgow, was adopted by India and married into Wales. Her main themes are drawn from a life of childhood, exile, journeying, home, displacement, religious strife and terror, and latterly, grief. She is also an accomplished artist, and all her collections are illustrated with her drawings, which form an integral part of her books. In I Speak for the Devil, the woman’s body is a territory, a thing that is possessed, owned by herself or by another. Her sequence They’ll say, 'She must be from another country' traces a journey, starting with a striptease where the claims of nationality, religion and gender are cast off, to allow an exploration of new territories, the spaces between countries, cultures and religions. The title-sequence speaks for the devil in acknowledging that in many societies women are respected, or listened to, only when they are carrying someone else inside their bodies – a child; a devil. For some, to be "possessed" is to be set free.

I Speak for the Devil

Dharker, Imtiaz

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The Veil of Illusion

Rebecca Ryman

Happiness and Other Disorders

Saidullah, Ahmad

Shashi deshpande's novel is about the secret lives of men and women who love, hate, plot and debate with an intensity that will absorb every reader it is a story that begins, conventionally enough, with a woman's discovery of her father's diary as manjari unlocks the past through its pages, rescuing old memories and recasting events and responses, the present makes its own demands: a rebellious daughter, devious property sharks and a lover who threatens to throw her life out of gear again the ensuing struggle to reconcile nostalgia with reality and the fire of the body with the desire for companionship races to an unexpected resolution, twisting and turning through complex emotional landscapes in moving on shashi deshpande explodes the stereotypes of familial bonds with an uncanny insight into the nature of human relationships and an equally unerring eye for detail

Moving On

Shashi, Deshpande

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