Friday, 31 July 2009 08:26
Amin Nath (Author),Amit Pasricha (Photographer)
 Monumental India
by Amin Nath (Author),Amit Pasricha (Photographer)
M onumental India presents breathtaking panoramic views of North India's famed monuments and sites as well as little-known architectural gems. Produced in a landscape format and including stunning multipage gatefolds, it covers many fascinating varieties of styles and periods and features sprawling Hindu and Jain temple complexes, imposing Islamic tombs and mosques, serene Buddhist monasteries and stupas, colonial and royal palaces, and majestic forts. The camera enters magnificent darbar halls where maharajas once held formal audience, and the opulent interiors of their private apartments, with mirrored decorations, chandeliers, and luxurious brocades.
Last Updated on Friday, 14 August 2009 08:10
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Wednesday, 29 July 2009 05:16
Suketu Mehta
 Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found
by Suketu Mehta
B ombay native Mehta fills his kaleidoscopic portrait of "the biggest, fastest, richest city in India" with captivating moments of danger and dismay. Returning to Bombay (now known as Mumbai) from New York after a 21-year absence, Mehta is depressed by his beloved city's transformation, now swelled to 18 million and choked by pollution. Investigating the city's bloody 1992–1993 riots, he meets Hindus who massacred Muslims, and their leader, the notorious Godfather-like founder of the Hindu nationalist Shiv Sena party, Bal Thackeray,
Last Updated on Friday, 14 August 2009 08:15
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Wednesday, 29 July 2009 04:59
Mira Kamdar
 Planet India: The Turbulent Rise of the Largest Democracy and the Future of Our World
by Mira Kamdar
M ira Kamdar takes the seemingly endless historical and cultural cross currents of India and weaves them together into a story that bears on the whole world. She combines her admiration and affection for India and its people with a keen eye for its contradictory impulses, taking readers deep inside an India that is fighting for modernity on its own terms, but also changing, for good and ill, in response to dynamics beyond its control. Indians, both within and outside their country, are changing the fates of people everywhere. "Planet India" is our planet." -- Ted Fishman, author of "China Inc."
Last Updated on Friday, 14 August 2009 08:26
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Wednesday, 29 July 2009 05:08
Stephen Philip Cohen
 India: Emerging Power
by Stephen Philip Cohen (Author)
Key Phrases: federal revolution, other nuclear weapons states, strategic community, United States, New Delhi, Soviet Union
I ndia's current foreign policy has evolved from its conflict with Pakistan over Kashmir, the humiliation of having China occupy its northern borderlands in 1962, and the further embarrassment of the intrusion of the U.S. aircraft carrier Enterprise into the Bay of Bengal in 1971. A senior fellow in the Foreign Policy Studies at the Brookings Institution and author of several books on India, Cohen is highly qualified to treat these three issues within a framework of the perceived greatness of India's civilization, its desire for regional dominance, its position as a valued if weak democracy, and an administrative decision-making structure for foreign and nuclear policy badly in need of revision
Last Updated on Friday, 14 August 2009 08:19
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Wednesday, 29 July 2009 04:50
Ramachandra Guha
 India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy
by Ramachandra Guha
Key Phrases: kar sevaks, standard acre, linguistic provinces, New Delhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, Sheikh Abdullah
I ndia is the country that was never expected to ever be a country. In the late 19th century, Sir John Strachey, a senior British official, grandly opined that the territory's diverse states simply could not possess any sort of unity, physical, political, social or religious. Strachey, clearly, was wrong: India today is a unified entity and a rising global power. Even so, it continues to defy explanation. India's existence, says Guha, an internationally known scholar (Environmentalism: A Global History), has also been an anomaly for academic political science, according to whose axioms cultural heterogeneity and poverty do not make a nation, still less a democratic one.
Last Updated on Friday, 14 August 2009 08:30
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