Pranab Bardhan gives a glimpse into his world of passions -literature, theatre, movies, travels.
Nikhil Sanjay-Rekha Adsule
Editor
In ‘The Memoirs of Valmiki Rao’, Lindsay Pereira uses the agency of a retired postman who tells the story of modern Ramayana set in the spatiality of Mumbai’s chawls which represent the ethos and pathos of working-class Mumbai.
In light of the contemporary political processes and destructive rhetorics, a timely intervention has been made in the public sphere - a fiction (yet non-fiction) book by Human Rights activist Aakar Patel, titled 'After Messiah'.
In 'Monsoon', the narratives of the author, Vimala Devi, assume importance in the societal moralities in which 'she' lives as it has a huge impact on her writings.
In many parts of the novel, Fire Bird, there is a sporadic bursting of fetish compassion which raises a ray of hope for reclaiming humanity. But it doesn't take away the fact that there is a subtle but firm undercurrent of systemic ascending scale of reverence and descending scale of contempt.
With meticulous simulation and analysis of over 1 million Supreme Court cases and its other corresponding elements, ‘Court on Trial’ by Aparna Chandra, Sital Kalantry, and William HJ Hubbard produces pragmatic suggestions that could help the Supreme Court to do away many of the lacunas that it has consciously or unconsciously absorbed, inherited, or have been historically got organised since its inception.
In Becoming Babasaheb: The Life and Times of Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar (Volume 1), Akash Singh Rathore presents the trajectory of Dr Ambedkar’s journey in a new light.
In A Man from Motihari, author Abdullah Khan picks up the thread of constitutional morality, reminding readers that ‘personal is political’
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