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7 Secrets from Hindu Calendar Art
Devdutt Pattanaik |
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Hindu calendar art may seem fantastic and kitsch, but it is in fact the most democratic expression of a mythic imagery that was once restricted to temple walls and palm leaf manuscripts. In this book Dr.Devdutt Pattanaik, India's renowned mythologist, decodes these symbols to reveal a wisdom that has nourished India for thousands of years.
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Rs 295
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Beasts in My Belfry
Gerald Durrell |
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"Durrell manages to convey not only that he loves animals, but that he enjoys life too and wants you to enjoy it with him." - Daily Mirror
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Rs 200
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Varied Salad:
I suspect I do not share Sadanand Dhume's understanding of 'civilisation' (that inevitably I-pointing word), the world economy or even, at time, Islamism. But I can do nothing but recommend his book, My Friend The Fanatic. It ranks among the best travelogue-type studies of Muslim societies in recent >>
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India, On A Miniature Scale:
Flip through the pages of Lie: A Traditional Tale of Modern India and you’ll see hundreds of colourful drawings. But this graphic novel, written by architect-author Gautam Bhatia and drawn by miniaturists from Rajasthan, is relentlessly dark and hard-hitting work that lampoons the unsavory aspects >>
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A Chick Of A Detective:
THERE’S a new type of detective hitting the Mumbai beat. Kasthuri Kumar, aka Katic. An ex-member of the police force who sprang out naked in the Chattisgarh firing at the Maoists attacking their camp. The memory has all the policemen who worked wth her drooling kind of longingly. Because Katie Kum >>
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A Graphic Novel Is A Comic. But That’s Also Like Saying War And Peace Is A Story Book:
There is no getting away from it- the man is quirky. His study walls are lined with photographs of Gandhi. But these are not familiar images- the Mahatma is not leading the Dandi march; nor is he smiling his toothless grin. Instead, he is sporting an Elvis hairdo. He is wearing pointed Ku Klux Klan >>
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Rights Sold:
THE rights of Bringing Up Vasu (Parul Sharma), have been auctioned off to be made into a movie. Bringing Up Vasu is a wickedly humorous mom-lit novel, which talks of a young mother’s first eventful year of bringing up her newborn. The novel was published early last year. Smita Jain’s Kkrishna’ >>
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Caustic Allegory:
The novella is something of an outlander in the publishing world; it is thought by many to lack the respectability of a full-length book while also lacking the compactness and balance of a good short story. However, there are certain types of stories that adapt extremely well to this in-between form >>
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