Book Reviews

Publisher: Srishti Publishers and Distributors Pages: 217 Price: Rs. 195 Set in the city of Kolkata, “In The Shadows of Death: A Detective Agni Mitra Thriller” is a fast-paced pot-boiler which hooks you and keeps you glued to the plot from the very beginning. Just when you think you’ve got it all figured out as per the clues that the …

 Publisher: Portobello Books Pages: 240 Price: Rs.499 It may seem only a preoccupation of curious adolescents or a subject of adult male titillation, but the obsession over the female body is present throughout any modern society – magazine covers and advertisements are a good indication. But is a particular female form – curvy is the customary popular term – a …

Publisher: New Millennium Pages: 141 Price: £ 9.95 This is an autopsy of Joseph Rudyard Kipling, known to Indians in particular for “Kim” and the more lovable “Jungle Book” stories. Indian journalist Subhash Chopra says the Lahore-born English writer’s knowledge of India was half-baked and his love for India has been overstated. “Yet most of his admirers turn a blind eye to …

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers India Pages: 240 Price: Rs.299 What was the common thread that united Hindu nationalists Dayananda Saraswati, Sri Aurobindo, Swami Vivekananda and Vinayak Damodar Savarkar? With their thinking, discourse and writings, all four influenced new thinking among Hindus that eventually paved the way for the Hindutva as we know today. Savarkar was no doubt the most vocal votary …

Publisher: Bloomsbury Pages: 256 Price: Rs.399 Aiming to cope with the changing world, sales methodology has evolved across the world. This book delves into the pros and cons of social selling and its various aspects and provides a holistic view of the subject. Saying that the laws of microeconomics find a direct correlation between demand and supply, the authors add: …

Publisher: Jaico Books Pages: 242 Price: Rs.350 Often, individuals on the heavy side of the weighing scale follow every theory to the ‘T’, try every tactic to lose all that food love which converts into fat, increasing not just the waist line but the perfect chin, the once slender shapely thighs and firm buttocks. Tending to all these ‘red alert’ …

Translator: Sudip Talukdar Publisher: Matrix Pages: 159 Price: Rs.150 “Travails of Bangdu” pulls no punches in unmasking the crooked politics behind bonded labour, which condemns a segment of adivasis to a subhuman existence. An unapologetic feudal system does its best to keep the pernicious practice alive, long after independence and in brazen defiance of the law which proclaims equality for …

Publisher: Bloomsbury Pages: 636 Price: Rs.799 Writing a comprehensive history of the world was a lot easier in the times when there was not so much history and just a part of the world was known, and the focus mainly on the role of one’s homeland in civilisation’s advance. In our age, the range of any such effort will be …

Publisher: Constable/Hachette India Pages: 510 Price: Rs.599 Wars have been won – and lost – based on how enemy intelligence is obtained, interpreted and acted upon. And if thrilling stories on edge-of-the-seat espionage keeps you hooked, then this book will offer you a peep into a world of mystery and intrigue. Right from the biblical period to the present day, …

Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton, An Hachette UK company Pages: 291 Price: Rs.699 Levinson Wood clambers up steep mountains and treks through narrow passes, taking us on a journey that begins in Afghanistan, moves through Pakistan and India and ends in Bhutan. In his book, he explores and presents an animated vision of the paths he treads — many of them …