This month I have had three books sent / gifted by authors / associates of publications that I want to review before the month is over.
The Grammar of Greed by Aseem Shrivastava is like its author an artistic beauty of a publication which one can read from any part and make a lot out of it. Daughter read the first para and already is loving it.
Imperialism and Agrarian Transition in South Asia is a compilation of series of articles on the various aspects of the crisis in front of us from multiple perspectives. Pranjali Bandhi and Jacob's article on JC Kumarappa's vision caught my eye first. I started to read the intense articles and realized it will need a holiday to complete as much of it throws light on the current issues from a different lense.
The Delhi Model was gifted to me by Sujeet and Seema Agarwal, closely associated with the Delhi model. Being far away, I haven't had an opportunity to get to know more about the amazing work that was initiated by several friends on education in Delhi. Despite the daily crisis of having to deal the eternally itchy political adversary, the AAP seems to have transformed several areas of life, something I have heard from people from Delhi often. Though their defeat in the election (similar to that of Patnaik's government in Odisha) was a surprise that I couldn't explain to myself until the Vote Chori campaign exposed the potential areas of election theft possible in India today. With the Election Commission neither being able to defend itself nor even initiate a legal battle to call those accusing wrong, ntil proven otherwise, I will continue to look at every election in India with a suspicious lense. However, in this case, I am thankful that Seema brought this book for me in Pune when I met with her and am looking forward to reading this book.
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