By Gouri Satya, Sr. Journalist Title: ‘The Maharaja & the Princely States of India’ Author: Sharada Dwivedi Year: 2002 Pages: 156 Price: 224 dollars Publisher: The Vendome Press, New Toekm USA Whenever I come to the US, I make it a point to visit the Sunnyvale Library in San Francisco. A beautifully designed coffee-table book…
Title: Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire Author: Caroline Elkins Pages: 896 Price: Rs. 2,564 Publisher: Knopf Year: 2022 (March 29) By Bhamy V. Shenoy First reaction of any Indian seeing the title of the book is likely to be why waste time reading another book on British Empire. We are familiar…
When Nobles became non-entities, Princes became paupers and Begums were reduced to beggars… By Dr. C.D. Sreenivasa Murthy Title: Tears of the Begums: Stories of Survivors of the Uprising of 1857 (Originally in Urdu as ‘Begumat Ke Aansoo’) Author: Khwaja Hasan Nizami Publisher: Hachette India Year of Publication : 1922 Translator : Ms….
Title: ‘Vishwakavi Ravindranatha-Ondu Rangadarshana’ Author: Dr. Geetha Seetharam Publisher: Swathi Prakashana, Bogadi, Mysuru By Dr. Shanthi Narasimhan Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore is a unique personality and no amount of words can appropriately describe him. However, an attempt to put his glorious life in an accessible format is mission impossible. But Dr. Geetha Seetharam has attempted this…
By Gouri Satya Title: Once upon a time Bangalore: Ajji & Other Tales Author: E. R. Ramachandran Pages: 250+IV Price: Rs. 230 Publisher: New Wave Books, Basavanagudi, Bangalore To err is human, said someone who perhaps was prone to commit errors. But to ERR, all capital letters? Is it Blunder, again with a capital B?…
Title: Srirama Bharatham Author: Dr. N.M. Girijapathi Year: 2021 Pages: 374 Price: Rs. 450 Publisher: Naimisha Publications, Mysuru By Prof. Chandrasekharaiah, Visiting Professor, Sri Basaveshwara Centre, Kuvempu Institute of Kannada Studies, UoM I heard in disbelief when Dr. N.M. Girijapathi first revealed that he has composed a narrative poem of epic proportions in Kannada based…
Title: Indian Culture Kannada Original: Dr. S. Srikanta Sastri English translation: Prof. S. Naganath Year: 2021 Pages: 669 Price: Rs. 800 Publisher: Notion Press Media Pvt. Ltd., Chennai Originally written in Kannada by renowned scholar and historian, Dr. S. Srikanta Sastri (1904-1974) under the title “Bharathiya Samskruthi”…
By R. Chandra Prakash This is a media impacted world. Information is no more merely a News, but a means of shaping the opinions of even an ordinary citizen. Media changed the direction of life of D.V. Sridharan, a trained marine engineer. After a decade of service on the sea and across the world he…
By Gouri Satya, Sr. Journalist Title : Heegondu Kutumbada Kathe Author: Palahalli Vishwanath Year: 2021 Pages: 343 Price: Rs.280 Publisher: Vasantha Prakashana, Jayanagar, Bengaluru As one enters the Lansdowne Building Road from the Jaganmohan Palace Road in Mysuru, one sees a prominent signboard on the first floor of the now neglected heritage building. It reads…
Coloniality, Civilisation, Constitution Title : India that is Bharat: Coloniality, Civilisation, Constitution Author: J. Sai Deepak Year : 2021 Pages : 423 Price : Rs.799 Publisher : Bloomsbury India By R. Chandra Prakash Title of the book India that is Bharat may echo the first two words in the Article 1 of our Constitution. However,…
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