Archive for the ‘Literature and Arts’ Category
Wednesday, June 25th, 2008 |
Are India’s female fetuses and babies vanishing at an alarming rate? Ten years after a law was passed in India, banning doctors from discussing the gender of a fetus with the parents following an ultrasound test, some Indian doctors not only continue to break that law, but even perform abortions if the parents decide to get rid of a female fetus.
Now, Indian-American author Shobhan Bantwal takes us into a world where the corrupt and covert practice of gender-selective abortion still thrives, in her second novel, The Forbidden Daughter, scheduled for release by Kensington Publishing on August 26, 2008.
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Sunday, June 15th, 2008 |
A book The UFO Experience Reconsidered: Science and Speculation offers perspectives in three basic categories: natural causes, domestic technology, and alien technology. But perhaps more importantly a new way of looking at the phenomena is proposed that has been largely overlooked by other authors, and which finds itself at home in any of these three possibilities. Unlike many books on this subject, even the speculations of this book have a scientific basis.
This book was inspired by, and is loosely based on The UFO Experience: A Scientific Inquiry (1972) by the late Dr. J. Allen Hynek. Dr. Hynek’s book is generally considered to be a classic and the most influential book ever written about UFOs but much has happened since 1972. This new book not only brings us up-to-date, but extrapolates on current science whenever possible.
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Sunday, May 25th, 2008 |
Seeing the current phase of engagements between India and China through Indian eyes while living in China, experiencing the complexities of their life to provide a fresh view on the momentous change taking place in that society, is a welcome change from the academic nature of China studies that has been the norm in India so far, said Foreign Secretary Shiv Shankar Menon as he released Smoke and Mirrors: An experience of China, an avante garde book about life in China by Pallavi Aiyar, a journalist based in Beijing and an advisor to the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) on China-related issues, here last evening.
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Thursday, May 15th, 2008 |
India and China were laid out comparatively on a platter for economists, investors and entrepreneurs at a session organized by CII and Aspen Institute India to launch Tarun Khanna’s runaway hit ‘Billions of Entrepreneurs - How China and India are reshaping their future and yours’. The launch witnessed an august gathering of some of the most well read minds in the country - Dr. Montek Singh Ahluwalia - Deputy Chairman, Planning Commission, Dr. Surjit Bhalla, Chairman & Managing Director, Oxus Research and Investments; Mr. Tarun Khanna, Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor, Harvard Business School professor and Author, Mr. Tarun Das - Chief Mentor CII, Mr. Chandrajit Banerjee - Director General, CII.
The panel discussion brought out important facets of the Indian and the Chinese economy highlighting the pros and cons of both; though a general agreement that India is fast catching up with China and will soon outperform the latter’s growth by 2010, was undisputable.
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Wednesday, May 14th, 2008 |
Over a century ago, H.G. Wells issued his warning, “History is a race between education and catastrophe.” According to C.W. Griffin, author of the compelling new book “Ignorance Is Strength: The Fundamentalist Assault On American Freedom”, catastrophe is currently leading the race by miles.
“Ignorance Is Strength” examines what Griffin calls the “unholy alliance between Christian evangelicals and Republican plutocrats.”
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