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Clothing matters From functionality to designer chic ABHIJIT GUPTA takes a look at the early uses of the book jacket and the ways in which it has evolved over the years. The book THE book is one of the greatest inventions of man. It is, even today in the electronic age, the best retrieval system yet devised. A book is the most user-friendly way of storing human knowledge, whether it relates to four or 500 different ... SHAKESPEARE TODAY The Bard by any other name... Shakespeare can be found in many places, in many guises. A quick tour by VISA RAVINDRAN.
Transforming the dominantProfessor Bill Ashcroft won academic acclaim with the publications of The Empire Writes Back in 1989, the work he had co-authored with Gareth Griffiths and Helen Tiffin. More than a decade later, ...
The passing of John Murray CHRISTOPHER HURST comments on the recent sale of London's last historic family-owned publishing house. CLASSICS REVISITED 
Perse's symphoniesAnabasis: a going or marching up; an advance, especially a military advance; or a difficult or dangerous retreat as of the Younger Cyrus in 401 BC narrated by Zenophon in Anabasis. Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary POETRY ... DIFFERENT REGISTERS 
Ahead of her timesIT is not everyday that one meets a person who has thought deeply about combining traditional knowledge systems, everyday life, and education for both adults and children. Meeting L.S. Saraswathi was such a rare experience. One would assume that ... END PAPER 
First edition feverFOR me, it began with The Silence of the Lambs. One day, quite by chance, I happened to look at the imprint of my copy and noticed it was a First Edition. Excited, I pulled down all the hardbacks off my shelf to see if I owned other First ... NEW BOOKS 
Forthcoming TitlesThe Humour and the Pity — On Naipaul, V.S. Naipaul and Amitava Kumar, Buffalo Books, 2002, p.174, Rs. 175. Family Matters, Rohinton Mistry, Faber and Faber, 2002, paperback, p.834, Rs. 415. Imperialism and ... Decline and fall ANOTHER literary "magazine", according to insiders, has bitten the dust. Tehelka.com, when it had time off its little cameras and briefcases, ran a literary "channel" that could come up with surprises. In the couple of years of its life it ... Hilly Billy RENAISSANCE aristocrats kept a notebook in which they scribbled memorable things they'd read. This notebook contained all the things the man thought exceptional: perversely, it was called the commonplace book. Ruskin Bond's Landour Days is ... Bombay dreams WRITING about the quotidian, as Ruskin Bond does in Landour Days, without boring the pants off your reader, is not easy. There is a man called Reyner Banham who managed to write three entertaining and informative pages on the potato crisp ... 
The little starTARA BOOKS is a small Chennai-based publisher with international tentacles. With one of these it has just looped in the Outstanding Book of the Year award in the Independent Publisher Book Awards 2002. This is a US-based prize for small ...
In defence of JihadSHAJAHAN MADAMPAT reviews two very different books on the theme of Jihad. One a work of formidable scholarship, the other an example of how not to write history. CULTURAL CRITICISM 
An excess of passionExploring the interface between politics and culture, caste and religion, the essays are meant to raise the quality of public awareness and debate. But, due to a lack of a sense of history and a want of theory, the book fails to integrate individual topics into a larger framework, says SUDHANSHU RANADE. FICTION 
The impossibility of graceWhile Coetzee's hard, cold prose suits his philosophical concerns, it robs Youth of any consoling sensuousness. Yet, it is an oddly compassionate book, says PANKAJ MISHRA. Where hell begins Using motifs and elements from fairy tale, fantasy and SF, Romesh Gunesekera narrates a bleak story of the contagion of violence, says TABISH KHAIR. ARCHITECTURE 
A sense of the marvellousJAI SINGH II is primarily remembered for his achievements in Astronomy and Architecture. His most ambitious building project was the city of Jaipur designed on the principles of the Pithampada mandala with the palace at the centre. Between ... 
PreviewAPHOTOGRAPHIC journey through life. By one of India's best-known photo-journalists. My people are not the rich and the famous. They are the simple ordinary folk... They were there when I picked up the camera six decades ago, and they have been ... NOW IN ENGLISH 
A Hindi iconIn `Madhavi' Sahni gives an ideological spin to a story drawn from the Mahabharata while an empathy with the downtrodden is evident in his Middle India, says KEKI N. DARUWALLA. PROSE 
Crusader for peaceIT may be a cause of some surprise to many that more works of Tolstoy were suppressed in the Tsarist Russia than in the U.S.S.R. He had also been excommunicated by the Most Holy Synod and was kept under police supervision in the last phase of his ... POETRY IN TRANSLATION Flawed effort Though well conceived, there is a blurring of focus and a deficiency of editorial input which reduces the value of Signposts, says SUKANTA CHAUDHURI. TRANSLATION 
Forgotten talesThe Book of the Hunter is about the Shabars, their traditions which are closely and secretly wound up with the forest in which they live and hunt, says UMA MAHADEVAN-DASGUPTA.
To UjjayiniUjjayini: A Fiction-poem, O.N.V. Kurup, translated by A.J. Thomas, Rupa and Co., 2002, p.152, Rs. 250. | ||||||||||