Category: Books

India, Russia and China’s different political cultures? The outbreak of Corona virus in China had brought with it so many questions about how countries run their affairs. In today’s The Hindu (Feb, 17, 2020) there is an elaborate write-up on how the media is tightly controlled in China and how that had led to such…

There are new books on the Mahatma and they bring out new insights and perspectives! It is also time to assess the contributions of the great leader with some critical questioning. So that we get from World War-I to Partition and the present times in Indian politics when Hindutva has become a creed for narrow…

How we can impact on our times? Indians must stand up and learn to speak for themselves as free citizens. The many hang-ups, the legacy of the British colonial low-confidence mindset and also the new political bosses who don’t practise any known Constitutionally-mandated norms of public behaviour have sapped the energies of the common man…

A memoir of a son of his highly talented and highly committed parents! Parental failures at the higher levels? Yes, this book is a painful reminder of this truth? I like to ask after reading this otherwise deeply moving, deeply touching memoir of a son of his very highly talented and committed parents. The later…

This denial of what is reality, what is the tursh? This is an intellectual journal, you should realise! So, we have to ask hard questions, use words that are new and also critical for our cognition and much intellectual self-doubt and also much searching for new issues and the answers that issues might call for….

I am a subscriber to some literary journals published in India. Of course, I am a reader of some of the world’s leading literary review journals, notably, the 100 and odd year old Times Literary Supplement, TLS of great fame. TLS has been a reading habit with me, now, I don’t know for how many…

Convert the historic site as a tourist destination! Book Review Sankagiri Fort and Town history Author:K.Karunakaran, Published by Priyadharshini Publications, Old Eadpady Road,Sankagiri-637 301 Salem District, Tamil Nadu Pages 228,Rs. 160/ This is a rare  regional history  and archeology book. The author Mr.Karunakaran is  a highly qualified student of history, an M.A. in history and…

For the Americans and the rest of the world Education’s one more duty! To impart optimism to a people! Just now, we read through a longish book review in one of the international journals. It is about the latest two new books on American history. The 20th century America and to be exact the first…