On science, religion, Brahmins and a book
I'm partway through Renny Thomas's new book, Science and Religion in India: Beyond Disenchantment. Its description on the Routledge page reads: This book provides an in-depth ethnographic stu…
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Life, distilled.
Book review: A Ball of Fire, John Montague (Bloomsbury, Rs. 299) When Gwendolyn Brooks remarked that poetry was “life distilled”, she may have overlooked John Montague and his collection of short sto…
Tragedy, over and over.
This book review, as written by me, appeared in The Hindu Literary Review on April 6, 2013. -- Chernobyl is in the past. Well, it’s definitely easy to look at it that way when you think of what you&…