Pakistan has never had any Jinnah: he was always the Quaid-e-Azam. Attempts to dig out the human being inside the Great Leader have been discouraged as being anti-
Satellite television is reaching out, but the target audience is still Indians.
It´s 11:30 on a lazy Sunday morning, India time, and if you want to look over
India: From Midnight to the Millennium
by Shashi Tharoor
Viking Penguin, New Delhi, 1997
A secular, liberal, urbane, globalised Indian fails to grasp India.
Silenced Rivers: The Ecology and Politics of Large Dams
by Patrick McCully
Zed Books, London, 1996
The book makes an overwhelming argument against dams; but it is equally possible to
The Sacred Life of Tibet
by Keith Dowman
Thorsons, London, 1997
ISBN 0 7225 :3 375 6
The Year That Was
edited by Ishrat Firdousi
Bantu Prahashan, Dhaka, 1996
Truth destroys all rosy notions of what a remembered war should be. War becomes a time where the
War and Peace in Post-Colonial Ceylon 1948-1991
by Adrian Wijemanne
Orient Longman Limited, New Delhi, 1996
INR 180 ISBN 81 250 0364 9
Everybody Loves a Good Drought
by P. Sainath
Penguin Books India, New Delhi, 1996
ISBN 0 14 25984 8
In the early 1980s, villagers in Naupada district in India´s
Human Development in South Asia 1997
by Mahbub ul Haq
Oxford University Press, Karachi, 1997
ISBN 0 19 577773 5
Tibet: The Road Ahead
by Dawa Norbu Harper Collins Publishers India, New
Delhi, 1997 INR 395, pp 378, ISBN 81 7223 238 1
Contemporary books about pre-1950 Tibet tend
Environmental Politics
People´s Lives and Developmental Choices
by Sumi Krishna
Sage Publications, New Delhi, 1996
Writings on the theorisation of the relationship between environment and development, realistic or spiritualistic,
India´s Northeast Resurgent
Ethnicity, Insurgency, Governance and Development
by B.G. Verghese
Konark Publishers, Delhi, 1996
475 pages.
This book is a product of some sustained thinking, if not
