CASTE PRIDE: Battles for Equality in Hindu India
Rate -Rs 609
Author -Manoj Mitta
Publisher – Context Publishers
In this masterful work, Manoj Mitta examines the endurance and violence of the Hindu caste system through the lens of the law. Linking two centuries of legal reform with social movements, he unearths the characters, speeches, confusions and decisions that have shaped the war on caste, mitigating how this ancient institution discriminated between Hindus across the board.
Describing brilliantly the passage of Hinduism into its modern avatar, the book celebrates women and men across the caste spectrumThrough these histories of reform, Mitta establishes that untouchability is merely the best-known aspect of varna, an elusive purity-based hierarchy that affects the freedoms of all. With groundbreaking discoveries and incisive insight, Caste Pride is at once moving, enlightening and transformative. Clear-sighted, meticulously researched, measured and nuanced, this is a highly accomplished history of caste.
A Matter of the Heart- Education in India
Rate –Rs 397
Author – Anurag Behar
Publisher: Westland publishing
A book on the state of education in India beyond the main cities and an ode to educators who are shaping the future of our country.Education is the possibility of building a better future, a better community, a better society, a better world. But what really is education? What does it mean to build a better future? And how does one build this future—beyond the metropolitan cities and the schools for the elite? In this collection of essays, Anurag Behar takes us to schools in remote villages of India. He gives us an insight into where our nation stands on education and, through that lens, into the nation itself. He shows us an India that is waiting for better infrastructure and one where the right to education is in constant struggle with the need for survival. But what emerges is the heart-warming and life-affirming story of how people and communities, energised from within, are changing lives—of individuals and the nation. This book is testimony to the essence of education.
Midnight’s Borders
Rate –Rs 419
Author -Suchitra Vijayan
Publisher : Context Publishers
India is a land of borders, its peripheries nestling against seven countries. Over seven years, across 9,000 miles, Suchitra Vijayan travelled these borderlands. From the densely populated border that India shares with Bangladesh to the highly disputed one with Pakistan, the stories in this book engage with how people live, struggle, fight and survive. These are stories that question our ideas of freedom and citizenship . At a time when millions in India face loss of citizenship, Vijayan’s clear-eyed, empathetic reportage provides a re-examination of the idea of territorial sovereignty. Midnight’s Borders, featuring over forty original photographs, is a compelling narrative of a country in crisis, turning against its own people while coping with the legacy of colonialism and Partition. As the margins close in on the mainland, this necessary account forces a reckoning with the brutality that informs India’s relationship with its borderlands.
Light at the end of the World
Rate – Rs 549
Author – Siddhartha Deb
Publisher :Context Publishers
Delhi, the near future: Bibi, a low-ranking employee of a global consulting firm, is tasked with finding a man long thought to be dead but who now appears to be the source of a vast collection of documents. The trove purports to reveal the secrets of the Indian government. Bhopal, 1984: an assassin tracks his prey through an Indian city that will shortly be the site of the worst industrial disaster in the history of the world. Calcutta, 1947: a veterinary student’s life and work connect him to an ancient Vedic aircraft that might stave off genocide. And in 1859, a British soldier rides with his detachment to the Himalayas in search of the last surviving leader of an anti-colonial rebellion. These timelines interweave to form a kaleidoscopic, epic novel in which each protagonist must come to terms with the buried truths of their times as well as with the parallel universe that connects them all, through automatons, spirits, spacecraft and aliens.
