BOOKS OF THE WEEK - SATURDAY, 09TH MAY, 2020

India Then And Now:  An Insider’s  Account

by - Bimal Jalan

ISBN : 9789353339999       Rs. 599.00

About the Book :

An inward-looking economy with a state-dominated development programme to a liberalized economy operating in a globalized world— india has indeed come a long way since Independence. In this volume, Bimal jalan—long-standing witness to India’s trajectory through the decades—gives us a complete picture of the country economic journey so far. In the pages of this book we read about broad issues of development policy, the role of science and Technology, exchange rate management, globalisation and more—all significant themes in the ongoing debate on India’s approach to economic reforms towards 2025 and beyond. Based on extensive research and data, and aided by Jalan’s experience as the former Governor of the Reserve Bank of India, this book, more importantly, also gives us a vision for the way ahead.As Indians indeed the world— faces challenging times, the recounting of tales from India’s economic history, when accompanied by the observations and wisdom of a senior economist like Bimal Jalan, can help allay fears and give optimism for the times to come.

About the Author :

DR BIMAL JALAN is the former Governor of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI). He has previously held several positions in the government, including those of Finance Secretary and chairman of the Economic Advisory Council to Prime Minister. A nominated Member of Parliament from 2003 to 2009 and the chairman of Expenditure Management Commission from 2014 to 2016, he also represented India on the Boards of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. In 2019, he was the chairman of the Economic Capital Framework, set up by the RBI in association with the government.

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BOOKS OF THE WEEK - SATURDAY, 31ST, AUGUST, 2019

The Hindu Way

An Introduction to Hinduism

By -   Shashi Tharoor 

ISBN : 9789388292856   

Price : Rs. 799.00

About the Book : 

The Hindu Way: An Introduction to Hinduism, the new book by bestselling author Shashi Tharoor, whose last three books have sold over a quarter of a million copies in hardback, is the perfect introduction to one of the world’s oldest, largest and most complex religions. Although there are hundreds of books on Hinduism, there are only a few which provide a lucid, accessible, yet deeply layered account of the religion’s numerous belief systems, schools of thought, sects, tenets, scriptures, deities, rituals, customs, festivals and philosophies. This book is one of them. In the tradition of classics of the genre like K. M. Sen’s Hinduism and Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan’s The Hindu View of Life, this book captures the essence of Hinduism with brevity, insight and an enviable grasp of the myriad layers and intricacies of one of the world’s greatest religions.

It is a book that is especially timely given the rather controversial role that religion has played in countries around the world. The author tells us why Hinduism is a religion that is well-suited to the needs of the world today: ‘In the twenty-first century, Hinduism has many of the attributes of a universal religion—a religion that is personal and individualistic, privileges the individual and does not subordinate one to a collectivity; a religion that grants and respects complete freedom to the believer to find his or her own answers to the true meaning of life; a religion that offers a wide range of choice in religious practice, even in regard to the nature and form of the formless God; a religion that places great emphasis on one’s mind, and values one’s capacity for reflection, intellectual enquiry, and self-study; a religion that distances itself from dogma and holy writ, that is minimally prescriptive and yet offers an abundance of options, spiritual and philosophical texts and social and cultural practices to choose from. In a world where resistance to authority is growing, Hinduism imposes no authorities; in a world of networked individuals, Hinduism proposes no institutional hierarchies; in a world of open-source information-sharing, Hinduism accepts all paths as equally valid; in a world of rapid transformations and accelerating change, Hinduism is adaptable and flexible, which is why it has survived for nearly 4,000 years.’

The text of The Hindu Way is embellished with over a hundred photographs and illustrations, many of them in colour, on various aspects of the religion. Based on Dr Tharoor’s extensive writing on the subject, including the bestselling Why I Am a Hindu, this book gives the reader an unrivalled understanding of Hinduism.

About the Author :

SHASHI THAROOR is the bestselling author of eighteen books, both fiction and non-fiction, besides being a noted critic and columnist. His books include the pathbreaking satire The Great Indian Novel (1989), the classic India: From Midnight to the Millennium (1997), the bestselling An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India, for which he won the Ramnath Goenka Award for Excellence in Journalism, 2016, for Books (Non-Fiction), and most recently, The Paradoxical Prime Minister: Narendra Modi and His India. He was a former Under Secretary-General of the United Nations and a former Minister of State for Human Resource Development and Minister of State for External Affairs in the Government of India. He is a three-time member of the Lok Sabha from Thiruvananthapuram and chairs Parliament’s External Affairs committee. He has won numerous literary awards, including a Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, and was honoured as New Age Politician of the Year (2010) by NDTV. He was awarded the Pravasi Bharatiya Samman, India’s highest honour for overseas Indians. He was given the Crossword Lifetime Achievement Award in 2018.

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BOOKS OF THE WEEK - SATURDAY, 13TH APRIL, 2019

The Patient Assassin

By - Anita Anand 

ISBN : 9781471174223

Price : Rs. 599.00

About the Book 

Anita Anand tells the remarkable story of one indian's twenty-year quest for revenge, taking him around the world in search of those he held responsible for the Amritsar massacre of 1919, which cost the lives of hundreds. When Sir Michael o'dwyer, the Lieutenant Governor of Punjab, ordered Brigadier General Reginald Dyer to Amritsar, he wanted him to bring the troublesome city to heel. Sir Michael had become increasingly alarmed at the effect Gandhi was having on his province, as well as recent demonstrations, strikes and shows of Hindu-Muslim unity. All these things, in Sir Michael's mind at least, were a precursor to a second Indian mutiny. What happened next shocked the world. An unauthorized political gathering in the Jallianwala Bagh in Amritsar in April 1919 became the focal point for Sir Michael's law Enforcers. Dyer marched his soldiers into the walled garden, filled with thousands of unarmed men, women and children, blocking the only exit. Then, without issuing any order to disperse, he instructed his men to open fire, turning their guns on the thickest parts of the crowd. For ten minutes, they continued firing, stopping only when 1650 bullets had been fired. Not a single shot was fired in retaliation. According to legend, a young, low-caste orphan, Udham Singh, was injured in the attack, and remained in the Bagh, surrounded by the dead and dying until he was able to move the next morning. Then, he supposedly picked up a handful of blood-soaked Earth, smeared it across his forehead and vowed to kill the men responsible, no matter how long it took. The truth, as the author has discovered, is more complex but no less dramatic. She traced Singh's journey through Africa, the United States and across Europe before, in March 1940, he finally arrived in front of o'dwyer in a London hall ready to shoot him down. The patient assassin shines a devastating light on one of the raj's most horrific events, but reads like a taut thriller, and reveals some astonishing new insights into what really happened.

About the Author

Anita Anand is a political journalist who has presented television and radio programmes on the BBC for twenty years. She currently presents Any Answers on Radio 4. She is the author of Sophia: Princess, Suffragette, Revolutionary and, with William Dalrymple, Koh-i-Noor: The History of the World's Most Infamous Diamond. She lives with her husband and two children in London.

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