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Travails in prison
On June 9, 2002, at 4.30 a.m., Iftikhar Gilani, a journalist with Kashmir Times, was roused from sleep by loud knocks at the door. Groggily, he opened it to find a posse of policemen, some armed, carrying an authorisation to search his house. Within minutes, they were turning his small flat inside out. Little did Gilani realise then that by the end of the day, he would be in police custody. His supposed crime: providing information to Pakistan's ISI on the deployment of armed forces in Jammu and Kashmir. The punishment: 14 years in jail. My Days in Prison is Iftikhar Gilani's chilling account of the nightmare that followed. Overnight, Gilani was turned from a career journalist to a confirmed spy. He was thrown into Tihar jail and vilified in news reports. In this book, Gilani narrates the horrors he was subjected to and convincingly shows, this was not his fight alone.
My Days in Prison
Iftikhar Gilani
Penguin; Rs. 195
India changing...
Daniel Lak's foray into writing a book on India started with a non-image. When, towards the end of his three-year stint as a BBC correspondent in India, he was accused by a young university student of portraying stereotypical images of the country in his report — bullock carts, cows ambling in the streets, snake charmers surrounded by enthralled spectators — he was completely taken aback. This got him questioning the images of Indian portrayed by the media, especially the Western media.
Mantras of Change: Reporting India in a Time of Flux brings to the fore the face of a new India, a country that is in a constant and prolonged state of social and economic ferment, largely driven by the aspirations of people at every level. Lak offers a glimpse of life in changing India based on his travels and encounters with people along the way.
Mantras of Change: Reporting India in a Time of Flux
Daniel Lak
Penguin-Viking, Rs. 375
Mythical world
Myths, they say, are the dreams of mankind, at once utterly strange and hauntingly familiar. They tell of beginnings and ends, creation and destruction, life and death... The 20 myths in this book come from many different cultures all over the world - from the great classic tales of Greece and Rome, and from Norse, Celtic, Egyptian, Native American, African, Indian and Asian traditions. At the heart of each is the story of a child hero. Rohini Chowdhury's magical narrative captures the adventure, mystery and wonder of these stories.
The Three Princes of Persia: Children in World Myth
Rohini Chowdhury
Puffin; Rs. 195
A.A. Husain & Co.
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