Page 151 - Book Reviews
Censorship and sensibility
Defending free speech, alas, takes more than standing up for science, sound argument and brave eloquence
In search of Hinduism
Hindol Sengupta's Being Hindu: Old Faith, New World and You is a breezy and ambitious book
Nike off the starting block
In 1962, college freshman Phil Knight went to Japan to explore the crazy idea of selling Japanese sports shoes in the American market. That was the start of the company that revolutionised the global
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The war that began all wars in West Asia
A detailed study of the Iran-Iraq war provides a timely reminder of the eight-year conflict that shaped the current conflagration in the region
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South America's drug-fuelled holocaust
Gangster Warlords is Mr Grillo's second book, coming five years after El Narco, in which he analysed Mexican drug cartels
An Adivasi's ways of seeing
A beautifully illustrated autobiography of Venkat Raman Singh Shyam captures the joys and heartbreaks of being a folk artist in an unequal world
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Tavleen's trysts
Her book is less of a Hindutva-loving diatribe against the Dynasty than its detractors suggest, but it is still hard to agree with much of what she writes
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A reader's Happy Place
Subsequent essays map the history of Indian writing in English and raise critical questions on the identity of the Indian writer