Author: Michel Danino
Publisher: Penguin, Price: Rs. 399/-, Pages: 368, PB
Book Reviewed by Santanu Ganguly

The Indian subcontinent was the scene of dramatic upheavals a few thousand years ago. The Northwest region entered an arid phase, and erosion coupled with tectonic events played havoc with river courses. One of them disappeared. Celebrated as 'Sarasvati' in...

By Fatima Bhutto
Penguin
Rs 699.00, 480pp with 16 illustrations, HB
Book Reviewed by Santanu Ganguly

In September 1996 a fourteen-year-old Fatima Bhutto hid in a windowless dressing room shielding her baby brother while shots rang out in the streets outside the family home in Karachi. This was the evening that her father, Murtaza, was murdered along with six of his associ...

Author: Achyut Yagnik and Suchitra Seth

Publishers: Penguin, Price: Rs. 350/-, Pages: 344, PB, Non-Fiction
Book Reviewed by Santanu Ganguly

A probing look beyond Hindutva to get to the heart of Gujarat. Many aspects of modern Gujarati society and polity appear puzzling.  A society which for centuries absorbed diverse people today appears insular and parochial, and wil...

Edited by: Magandeep Singh
Publisher: Penguin, Price: Rs. 295/-, pp. 248, PB, Food & Drink
Book Reviewed by Santanu Ganguly

In Wine Wisdom, certified sommelier Magandeep Singh takes wine off the snob table and puts it in a handy brown bag for all to relish. 
 
With the irrepressible passion he reserves for his favourite beverage, Magan leads you throu...

Edited by: William Dalrymple
Publisher: Penguin, Price: Rs. 495/-, pp. 624, PB, Non-Fiction
Book Reviewed by Santanu Ganguly

James Achilles Kirkpatrick landed on the shores of eighteenth-century India as an ambitious soldier of the East India Company. Although eager to make his name in the subjection of a nation, it was he who was conquered--not by an army but by a Muslim Ind...

Author: Satyajit Ray, Translation: Gopa Majumder
Publisher: Penguin, Price: Rs. 275/-, pp. 232, PB, Non-Fiction
Book Reviewed by Santanu Ganguly

Exactly fifty years ago, in 1955, the release of Pather Panchali heralded the arrival of a master in the world of cinema. Over the next forty years, Satyajit Ray came to be regarded as one of the world's finest film-makers ever. ...

New Delhi: On the second day of the Delhi Sustainable Development Summit (DSDS 2011), the French Development Agency (AFD) and The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) released a book titled, Oceans - The New Frontier. The book is a part of the series, A Planet for Life an annual publication on sustainable development prepared under the scientific leadership of leading figures ...

Author: Sudeep Chakravarti
Publisher: Penguin, Price: Rs. 250/-, pp. 200, PB, Fiction
Book Reviewed by Santanu Ganguly
So there we were, Fish, Porridge, PT Shoe and I, Brandy. We were brothers without barriers, friends until death. In an elite boarding school in Rajasthan, fifteen-year-old Barun Ray, aka Brandy, lover of canned fish and beefsteak, hater of Kipling, worshipper of...

Author: Ali Sethi
Publisher: Penguin, Price: Rs. 499/-, pp. 407, HB, Fiction
Book Review by Santanu Ganguly

Zaki Shirazi returns to Lahore to celebrate the wedding of his cousin and childhood companion Samar Api (who has finally, it seems, found her Amitabh). Home is not what it used to be; Musharraf is in power, there has been a boom, and Lahore seems to have seen 'too m...

Edited by: Ravi Shankar Etteth
Publisher: Penguin, Price: Rs. 295/-, pp. 368, PB, Fiction
Book Reviewed by Santanu Ganguly
The murderer began to laugh. He was confident that the police would come up with nothing… 
 When a diplomat at the Madagascan embassy in Delhi is stabbed to death in mysterious and quite possibly scandalous circumstances, the ambassador calls...