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Minorities and nation-building
UNBECOMING CITIZENS — Culture, Nationhood, and the Flight of Refugees from Bhutan: Michael Hutt; Oxford University Press, YMCA Library Building, I Floor, Jai Singh Road, New Delhi-110001. Rs. 595. HUTAN REMAINS one of the least ...


Case for women in governance
ESSAYS ON GENDER AND GOVERNANCE: Human Development Research Centre, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) India, New Delhi. THIS VOLUME contains a brilliant collection of essays by an equally eminent set of scholars, namely, ...
Galaxy of preceptors
PRECEPTORS OF ADVAITA — Pujya Sri Jayendra Sarasvati Swamigal Peetarohana Swarna Jayanti Volume: Samata Books, 10, Congress Building, Chennai- 600006. Rs. 350. THIS PUBLICATION edited by T.M.P Mahadevan which was originally ...
Sankhya philosophy
MAAMUNIVARIN KAPILARIN SANKHYA TATTHUVAM — The Sankhya Philosophy of Sage Kapila (Tamil): Kadalangudi Brahmasri Natesa Sastrigal; Kadalangudi Publications, 38, Natesa Iyer Street, T. Nagar, Chennai-600017. Rs. 75. AMONG the six ...
Ethical aphorisms
THE IMMORTAL KURAL: V.C. Kulandaiswamy; Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, Kulapati Munshi Marg, Mumbai-400007. Rs. 60. ABOUT 2000 years ago, a Tamil weaver wove ethical maxims into the celebrated Tirukkural that can now be used as a ...
Economic costs of ecological deficits
THE EARTH POLICY READER: Lester R. Brown, Janet Larsen, Bernie Fischlowitz-Roberts; Orient Longman Private Limited, 3-6-752, Himayatnagar, Hyderabad-500029. Rs. 375. THERE ARE some books which come unheralded but leave a deep impression ...
Alladi's reminiscences
THE ALLADI DIARY-II — Global Saga of Space-Time Unity Both in Relativity and in Reality: Alladi Ramakrishnan; EastWest Books (Madras) Private Ltd., 571 Poonamallee High Road, Aminjikarai, Chennai-600029. Rs. 450. THE BOOK under ...
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TAMIL
Summary of the Mahabharata
SRIMAN MAHABHARATA TATPARYA NIRNAYAM: R. Sridharan; Pub. by Chromepet Madhva Seva Trust, Chennai-600044. Copies can be had from N. Srinivasan "Vasishta", Plot No. 42, Sundaram Colony, II Main Road, Selaiyur, Chennai-600073. Rs. ...
SANSKRIT -- TAMIL
Propitiatory rites
NAVAGRAHA SANTHI: Mylapore Veda Adhyayana Sabha, 12, Pitchu Pillai Lane, Mylapore, Chennai-600004. ACCORDING TO Hindu cosmology (given in the Puranas), when nemesis takes place at the end of each aeon (Mahapralaya), God creates the ...
KANNADA
Saga of a hero
BHEEMAYANA: Kannada translation by C. Raghavan of M. T. Vasudevan Nair's Malayalam novel Randamoozham; Sahitya Akademi, Ravindra Bhavana, 35, Phiroj Shah Marg, New Delhi-110001. Rs. 100. AS THE weighty title suggests, "Bheemayana" is ...
URDU
Essays on Urdu education
URDU TALEEM AUR SCHOOL: Firoz Bakht Ahmed; National Council For Promotion of Urdu Language, West Block 1, Wing 6, R.K. Puram, New Delhi-110006. Rs. 200. THIS IS a collection of 46 essays on Urdu education, schools and other related ...
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