Encounters is an exceptional narrative. A political autobiography that highlights the dramatic turns of the author’s life and career, it traces her initiation into trade union activism, particularly her work in the coal mining areas in eastern India, as well as her transition from the social elite of pre-Independence Patiala to a life of political and social service in Bihar and Jharkhand.
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Started in 1968 by graduates of the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, the Front for Rapid Economic Advancement of India, or FREA, ran an ‘involvement programme’ which took over 350 students from different professional colleges all over India to more than 40 rural and urban projects across the country. Enquiring Minds explores different facets of this unique experiment 50 years after it began, through the memories of those who participated in it.
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The term ‘education’ is as hard to pin down as it is ubiquitous, so it feels a remarkable achievement that the programme has been able to find its feet so quickly, graduate masters and doctoral students, and along the way train thousands of teachers across the country.
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Since time immemorial, men and women have always wondered about the world they live in. Who created it; what is its purpose, if there is one; how, where and when was it created? Why do the trillions of species just endlessly go through a cyclical pattern of birth, life and death without any discernable rationale for their existence?
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A unique collection of 15 contemporary case studies documenting in detail social enterprises in agriculture, Farming Futures: Emerging Social Enterprises in India, edited by Ajit Kanitkar and C. Shambu Prasad…
First Person Singular is a collection of essays, opinion articles, reminiscences, and obituaries, written by Ashok Mitra, most of these originally appearing in The Telegraph daily published out of Kolkata as part of a regular column which lends its name to this book.
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Based on research conducted over a year and a half, First Steps is the first account of its kind that documents, maps and analyses the rapidly growing field of Citizen Science in ecology in India. It presents important elements of what has happened in recent years through a study of 17 such projects and sets the stage for what might be expected in the years to come.
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Future Shock is a non-fiction armchair journey into the future, a book about how life is going to change post the pandemic. It talks about how we will live, not the day after tomorrow, but tomorrow …
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The Gujarat State Petroleum Corporation (GSPC) has been a leading economic light of the Gujarat Model. It was the flagship project of an “economic resurgence” that the Narendra Modi government unleashed …
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Gunned Down – Murder of An Olympic Champion traces the extraordinary life of one of Indian hockey’s most formidable figures.
Unflinching, deeply researched, and emotionally resonant, this book unearths the legacy of a sportsman who refused to be silenced, even when the system turned against him.
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One of India’s most prolific bloggers, Shukla’s weapons of choice are humour and satire, the stiletto and not the bludgeon. He uses them skilfully to expose the inanities, pretensions, biases, cupidities and failures of our society, governments, media, big business, academia and anything else that rouses his ire.
The photographs of the Chin people in this book fill the eye with these dilemmas. As ethnic minorities from Myanmar living in exile in the Indian capital, most of the men, women and children you see in these images have refugee status accorded to them by the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) and live in unspeakable hardship. But even without any knowledge of their precise circumstances, you can see them suffering from various maladies of the body and mind, perhaps from memories of the home they have been forced to leave behind. Captured in natural light, these images seem to exude a yellow gloom, conveying the jaundiced mood of the setting. There are pockets of darkness in these photographs, as though a metaphor for their lives. The handful of families represented in this project embody the traumas and tragedies that define the lives of a majority of the Chin community in India.
Idea of India Hard to Beat is a collection of essays and articles written by Badri Raina between 2010 and 2015 that bear witness to the shifting socio-political dynamics of the recent past.
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Ramya Sarma inherited a little box. This one was a treasurehouse of recipes for pickles, preserves, fryums and other yummies. It lay around for many years until one day it became a book. This one uses modern methods that are simple
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In India India Feeling, a light-hearted exploration of India, Vikas Dhawan brings forth memories of childhood, of growing up and of the warmth of family and friendships, sketching a vibrant essence of the country when it had old-fashioned charm.
