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School, Society, Nation -- Popular Essays In Education

The Hindu : New Delhi News : Briefly
28-Sep-05

NEW DELHI: To commemorate its five decades in education, Springdales Education Society released a book, 'School, Society, Nation -- Popular Essays In Education', here this past week.

The book contains essays relating to contentious educational issues, besides refreshing ideas on how to make our system equitable, meaningful and joyful for children.

Published by Orient Longman, it is edited by Rajni Kumar and academicians Anil Sethi and Shalini Sikka.

The Last Journey to Paradise, A review by Anjana Basu

PARADISE AND OTHER STORIES
by Khushwant Singh
Penguin Viking/Ravi Dayal Books. Rs 295

There is a story about Samuel Johnson and a lady who came to him after his Dictionary was published. "Dr Johnson," she gasped, "your Dictionary is full of naughty words!" >>>

Our Films Their Films

Parabaas - Satyajit Ray Section "Satyajit Ray's first and only book in English on cinema, Our Films Their Films (1976) - An Essay on Satyajit Ray, by Sujit Mukherjee."

The Malabar Muslim Cookery

HAVE YOU had the opportunity of having a cookbook author cook for you? Just imagine the delight of leafing through the cookbook, picking out recipes and then being able to order them for your home or parties. And if the author's repertoire is wide and covers South Indian, Chinese, Kerala and Moghlai dishes, then it gets even better.

The Vedic People, Frontline, 9-Dec-2000

"HISTORY cannot be written without implicating the historian," says Rajesh Kochhar as he begins his journey into the remote past. By any standards, he is an unconventional historian, an astrophysicist who has equipped himself with the tools of diverse di sciplines - ethnography, linguistics, metallurgy, paleobotany, among others - to interpret a period which to this day remains wrapped in mystery. More than the obscurity of the archaeological and scriptural records, the more formidable barriers to unders tanding have been posed by the layers of political partisanship that the study of the Vedas - as historical documents - have acquired over the years.". >>>