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barriers to unders tanding have been posed by the layers of political partisanship that the study of the Vedas - as historical documents - have acquired over the years.". >>>
The Making of the Indian Atomic Bomb — Science, Secrecy and the Postcolonial State by Itty Abraham, The Tribune 8Aug99
IN the mid-fifties Homi Bhabha took a bet with Sir John Cockcroft, the then head of Britain’s Atomic Energy Authority facility at Harwell, that India’s first nuclear reactor “Apsara” would be ready in a year’s time. Although the one-megawatt reactor finally went critical on August 4, 1956, Bhabha lost the bet because the reactor was late by a few days. But with that event the hyper-traditional met the hyper-modern in the shape of the atomic reactors, the most modern of objects so similar in shape to the lingams found in countless Shiva temples across the country.” >>>
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