The Speaking Structure
KG Kannabiran
HarperCollins
Pp 340, Rs 699
The Speaking Constitution normally takes a shut glance at the operating of the Structure and the development of the notion of justice via the courts, mapping in the process a authorized geography of civil liberties in India. An edited translation of the oral memoir narrated by human rights activist KG Kannabiran (1929–2010), this e-book is reflective of his lifelong fight with the point out and his do the job in the civil liberties motion.
Lifeless in Banaras
Ravi Nandan Singh
Oxford College Press
Pp 184, Rs 1,495
Ethnographies fatefully depend on prospect encounters and mysteriously so these encounters occur true. Dead in Banaras is an occasion of just such a fateful opportunity come upon. In its inception, it set out to comply with the ‘dead’ across numerous social places of crematoria, healthcare facility, morgue and the aghorashram, in get to assemble a contemporary moment in the funerary iconicity of the effectively-recognized north Indian town of Banaras.
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As Superior as My Term
KM Chandrasekhar
HarperCollins
Pp 312, Rs 599
In an illustrious job spanning around 40 decades in public services and culminating in the best office in Indian bureaucracy— Union cabinet secretary—KM Chandrasekhar has viewed, and performed, it all. He is just one of all those scarce IAS officers who has held a huge vary of senior positions in state federal government, the Centre, and community sector undertakings. In this autobiography, he paints an personal photo of the UPA govt through 1 of its toughest phases, amongst other folks.
The Hijab
PK Yasser Arafath & G Arunima
Simon & Schuster
Pp 272
This selection of essays complicates the connection concerning Muslim ladies and the hijab. Shifting absent from predictable interpretations that see the hijab just as an instrument of Muslim women’s oppression, the essays below demonstrate that not only have Muslim ladies coated/ or uncovered their heads for distinct reasons, but the head cloth by itself has had diverse varieties dependent on the region or period of background.
Mansur: A Novel
Vikramajit Ram
Pan Macmillan
Pp 176, Rs 599
Saturday, the 27th of February, 1627. The grasp artist Mansur need to complete his painting of a dodo and prepare for an imminent journey to Kashmir when he is interrupted by Bichitr. An innocuous remark from this visitor—first to Mansur and a very little later to the portraitist Abu’l Hasan—has dire consequences as far more people at the imperial atelier, the library and the women’s quarter are drawn into a internet of secrets and half-truths.
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