Growing Pains
Author’s Bio: Kanika G, a physicist by training and a mother of two girls, started writing to entertain her older daughter with stories, thus opening the floodgates on a suppressed passion. Today she has written over 36 children’s stories and blogs on various parenting and feminist issues. About the book: Thirteen-year-old Tara, is in a new school in a new town, and she is feeling very sick. It turns out that she needs an emergency appendectomy. This is a story about her anxiety before the surgery, the hurdles she faces during recovery, and amusing visits from quirky friends and well wishers. At the same time, Tara finds herself attracted to a boy from her class. It’s the first time she has ever had a crush. Plagued by confusing emotions and hormones, Tara tries to figure out this new, befuddling and complicated world.
Twilight in a Tangle
A compelling poetry collection with fine nuances about life, nature and hope despite dejection and failures.
Rainforest and Raging Fire
Rainforest and Raging Fire is a compilation of twenty-one translated Bengali short stories — from Rabindranath Tagore to Syed Mujtaba Ali to Leela Majumdar to Satyajit Ray. This is Partha Banerjee’s second collection of eminent writers’ famous tales: the first one was eighteen stories published in Music Box and Moonshine (Rubric, 2018). In this collection, Banerjee also included some major storytellers from post-independence Bangladesh. Banerjee feels special pride in having done translations of four Banerjees he considers his literary mentors: Bibhuti Bhushan, Manik, Saradindu, and Tara Shankar.
Tagore Heroines: Assessing the Portraits of Gender Orientation – New Edition
Bina Biswas’s Tagore’s Heroines: Assessing the Portraits of Gender Orientation is a book that does not limit itself only to a feminist reading of Rabindranath Tagore’s works but with its sweetness and light – it magnifies the cultural complexity from where Tagore sketched his female characters.
It is in this culture where Tagore found (or perhaps wanted to project) a subversive change in the lives of women, and the author of this book has aptly focused her research on this particular aspect where the creative consciousness of an era cannot but be influenced by the social discourse of that particular time. Tagore was not an exception. But what was truly exceptional about him is that he acknowledged the influence and let his pen perform something truly extraordinary for his time. Bengal was waking up. Just like the other giants of his family, Tagore had to take part in the phenomenon.
Sufi Thoughts in Literature and World Peace
Twenty thousand years ago, when early man made his way to North America, a tribe of prehistoric predators made the great trek as well. But these giant, deadly beasts seemingly became extinct…and humans lived to become the most violent creatures on Earth. Man’s brutal nature reached a boiling-point with the execution of Russia’s last czar and his entire family. But some believed that the czar’s children, Alexei and Anastasia, survived―and came to America with the treasury of the Romanov dynasty. That legend was born on July 17, 1918―and lives on to this day…
Jayalalithaa : A Tale of Two Births
This book will hold the attention of any reader. A book on an eminent personality who was a celebrity in the entertainment industry and a politician of much stature, being the Chief Minister of an erstwhile state like Tamil Nadu must have in it a mix of biography, history, politics, economics, sociology, and of the fancy, imagination, and fantasy or the fantastic by coloring it with fiction.
Deterrence, Rational Choice and White-Collar Crime
White Collar Crimes are a stark reality especially in Asian countries where jobs are hard to come by. But it’s the sort of
crime which the general elite public closes their eyes to and even participate in by joining the consumer part of the cycle. Probably because it’s mostly non-violent and its tragedies are depicted as ‘accidents’ or ‘incidents’. I found this academic study on health and safety provisions in the readymade garment sector in Bangladesh very relevant. The subcontracted factory owners are an eye-opener to the average reader who usually turns the page on such reports as a dry subject not affecting him. But it does, especially if you are a brandaholic. The author has concluded that evasion of OHS practices can be labelled as white-collar crime and I hope reading this study will also deter future players from the act of evading necessary safety practices in their industries.
Poetry and Emotions on Celluloid
The passion with which this book has been researched and written is infectious. It is almost like listening to a eclectic playlist in a jukebox page after page. The songs so deeply etched in our souls and their immortal writers come alive as one reads the book. It is like reading the birth of independent India seen through the prism of popular songs that shaped our collective consciousness. This is nothing less than a collector’s item.
Sarthak Dasgupta
Filmmaker and Author