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A FASCINATING companion to The Secret Life of Plants by the same authors, this book tells the story of the innovative, non-traditional, often surprising things that certain scientists, farmers, and mystics are doing to prevent the slow degradation of our planet.
For example, using the techniques of Rudolf Steiner's biodynamic agriculture with its reliance on ethereal forces from the planets, Dan Carlson's growth stimulating Sonic Bloom, and rock dust fertiliser to revitalise depleted soils; or gardening with the help of truly amazing new technologies to reverse serious agricultural problems.
The authors illustrate, in a truly enlightening and convincing manner, the pivotal role that the natural elements play in our lives, and the necessity of cultivating and sustaining a relationship with one most basic of them — the soil.
Secrets of the Soil by Peter Tompkins & Christopher Bird; Rupa; Rs. 395
IN THIS creative and intimate work, Narayan matches her considerable vegetarian cooking talents with delicious accounts of her childhood in South India, her college days in America, her arranged marriage, and visits from her parents and in-laws to her home in New York City. In doing so, she illumines Indian customs while commenting on American culture from the vantage point of the sympathetic outsider.
In stories as varied as Indian spices — at times pungent, mellow, piquant and sweet — we get to meet characters like Raju, the milkman who named his cows after his wives; the iron-man who daily set up shop in Narayan's front yard, picking up red-hot coals with his bare hands; her mercurial grandparents and inventive parents, who, like Narayan, have a thing or two to say about cooking and about life. And, tantalising recipes for potato masala, dosa and coconut chutney, among others, emerge from her absorbing tales about food and the solemn and quirky customs that surround it.
Monsoon Diary: A Memoir With Recipes by Shoba Naryan; Penguin; Rs. 295
AT THE dawn of Independence in India, in a small satra in South Kamruup in Assam, the Gossains, its religious and spiritual heads, grapple with a palpable threat to their traditional authority. The satra soaks in opium fumes, taxes challenge their ownership of land, the emerging forces of communism strike at the debilitated roots of feudal power. The author holds up a powerful picture of change and transition, of degeneration and decay, which finds suitable expression in the central metaphor.
Interwoven with the main story is a poignant tale of the tragedy of widowhood — the plight of Brahmin widows encased in the satta and their responses to a fate worse than death... This is a novel remarkable as much for its depth of observation as its narrative power.
The Moth-eaten Howdah of the Tusker by Indira Goswami; Rupa; Rs. 395
IN THIS book, Piloo Reporter takes us through his eventful journey as an umpire, a journey that commenced at the club level in the early 1960s and culminated in a spectacular fashion at cricket's biggest event, the World Cup, three decades later.
The agony — a delayed Test debut, not making it to the frontline in the 1987 World Cup — is overshadowed by ecstasy — the first `neutral' umpire in Test cricket in seven decades, a hat-trick of Test matches, the Nehru Cup final and, of course, the 1992 World Cup.
This book showcases the author's memories, his views on pertinent cricketing issues, and of course the giants who graced the game in the 1970s, 1980s and the 1990s.
An Umpire Remembers: An Autobiography by Piloo Reporter; Rupa; Rs. 395
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