Category: Reviews
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‘Manto Saheb — Friends and Enemies on the Great Maverick’ review: Words on Manto
If you want to read a festschrift with a difference read Manto Saheb. If you want to know how Manto’s contemporaries and fellow writers viewed the maverick in their midst this collection of essays provides multiple mini biographies of a complex, troubled man, one might even say a mad genius. Manto himself has left behind…
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Review:?Reclaim Your Life by Shelja Sen
“Depression happened to ‘other’ people and not to people like me” Haven’t we all thought this way at some point in our lives? That disorders like depression, anxiety and OCD (Obsessive Compulsion Disorder) are problems which are alien to us? They can happen to others but never to us, and when realisation strikes, we are…
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‘India Unmade — How the Modi Government Broke the Economy’ review: Dissenting voice
Yashwant Sinha is angry over the economic management of the Narendra Modi government. In his early years, Sinha was a socialist and a Finance Minister in Chandra Shekhar’s cabinet. In time, he moved over to the Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) and served in the Vajpayee government as Finance Minister for four years and as Foreign…
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‘The Line of Control — Travelling with the Indian and Pakistani Armies’ review: Conflict zone
A journey to the LoC on each side reveals the plight of civilians and why both India and Pakistan are to blame. If Spy Chronicles, written by two spy chiefs together, that too an Indian and a Pakistani, was improbable, so too is Happymon Jacob’s entry into the sanctum sanctorum (GHQ) of the Pakistan Army…
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‘Early Indians’ review: Who we are and where do we come from
A compelling story of new DNA findings, tracing the people of India from prehistory to near history. Between 45,000 and 20,000 years ago, most of humanity lived in South Asia, reflecting the unmatched population expansion of people living in the region. This and other fun facts are scattered throughout the thrilling account of our past…