The Theory of Everything: The Origin and Fate of the UniverseStephen Hawking2006Jaicopp. 120The Theory of Everything is based on a collection of lectures by Hawking. The brilliance of Hawking in the concepts that he talks about and the way he talks about them is unmatched. Like his other book, A Brief History of Time, he…
Free Your MindM P Neary2015MartynearyKindle edition The short book describes the need to free our minds from clutter. It delves upon the necessity of silence and decluttering our minds and lives. It is a short and easy to read book and touches upon all the right topics in the fast paced, technology ridden, competition driven…
The Horse and His Boy C S Lewis 1955 (this edition 2010) Harper Collins pp.112 The third in the Chronicles of Narnia series, The Horse and His Boy is the story of a harsh ruler from where the protagonists- Shasta and Aravis, Bree and Hwin, escape because of their personal circumstances. It is a story…
Manjrekar, N. (2013) Gujarat: Patriarchy Revisited – A Dress Code for Teachers. Economic and Political Weekly, 48(43) The paper addresses the phenomenon of making a dress code compulsory for teachers. This in turn points towards the authoritarian approach of bureaucracy as also towards the attempt to curtail the freedom of teachers, in their personal domain…
VectorRobin Cook1999pp. 427Vector is another in the series of Jack Stapleton and Lauri Montgomery medical mysteries. Now that I have read it, I am wondering if I should be reading the series in the order in which they have been published! Like in all other books by Cook, Vector too focuses on one of the…
The Book of Laughter and ForgettingMilan Kundera (tr. Aaron Asher)1996 (this edition of English translation, original 1978)LondonFaber and Faberpp. 312The Book of Laughter and Forgetting is a collection of seven narratives that cover a range of issues but have subtle underlying common themes. Part satire, part humour, part realism, the book is best understood in…
How to Make Enemies and Offend PeopleG Sampath2013New DelhiPenguinpp. 205 Sampath’s book is part humour, part satire on a variety of social, political, and sometimes personal concerns. His keen observation and his play with words is entertaining and engaging. Buying a property in cities, having staycations, and umpteen attempts at rearranging books are themes that resonate…
My Gita2015Devdutt PattanaikNew DelhiRupapp. 256Pattanaik’s ‘My Gita’ describes the lessons provided in the dialogue between Krishna and Arjun on the battlefield between Pandavas and Kauravas. The sermon is widely known to present important lessons of life and serves as the prelude to Arjuna’s darshan of Krishna as God. Despite its popularity and my keen interest on…
Deswal, A. 2017. Business of Teacher Education in Haryana. Economic and Political Weekly, 52(11): 62-66. The paper begins by establishing the significant role of teachers in the development of children and of the nation at large. This builds the base for the need of a sound teacher education system. Deswal enlists the various reforms in…
yksd f’k{kd eap (2016) gekjs f’k{kd- ubZ fnYyh% yksd f’k{kd eapA 40 i`’B The booklet begins by presenting a summary of the lives and works of educationists. While some of these educationists have been recognized for their contribution, others have not got their due. Situated in pre-independence India, the educationists differ across class, caste, religious…
