The Country of First Boys
Amartya Sen
Oxford University Press
Pp 276
Rs 550
Amartya Sen’s The Country of First Boys asserts that public policy should swing sharply towards the poor, the illiterate, and those suffering from ill health and malnourishment.
Man on Fire
Stephen Kelman
Bloomsbury
Pp 296
Rs 499
John Lock has fled the quiet desperation of his life in England and come to India to meet his destiny: a destiny dressed in a white karate suit and sporting a moustache.
The Cosmopolitans
Anjum Hasan
Penguin
Pp 385
Rs 499
Qayenaat is a drifting, solitary and sensitive figure. When world-famous artist Baban Reddy, once a young man who hung on her every word, returns to her city, all her old longings return.
Gita Press and the Making of Hindu India
Akshaya Mukul
HarperCollins
Pp 540, R 799
This book provides insights into the complicated and contested rise to political pre-eminence of the
Hindu Right. Gita Press features an extraordinary cast of characters.
Katha
Shoba Narayan
Rupa
Pp 192
Rs 295
Katha is about the art of storytelling in business. It tells you why stories are important, when you must tell a story and how to find and tell the most effective tales.