NEW PUBLISHED BOOKS OF 2020
THE DRUNK BIRD CHRONICLES
Allegro Armstrong Bragenza, the avain chronicler,
recoerds for over 100 years the lives of the essentric Englishmen Gareth
Armstrong; his daughter, Rachiel; and five generations of a British-Goan family
in this irreverent and funny novel.
KOHRA GHANA HAI: NOTHING PERSONAL
NAVEEN CHOUREY
PENGUIN
RS-199
Naveen Chouey'sslam poetry is on burning issues of the
say like linching, political blockades and the condition of soldiers. His idealism
and vision for an egalitarian world fire his poetry. The book, in flip book
form, is in both Devnagari and Roman script.
THE REVISIONERS
MARGARET WILKERSON SEXTON
COUNTERPOINT
RS-1498
Two women from the American South deal with recism in
different eras. In the 1920s, Josephine becomes friends with Charlotte, the
white woman with ties to the Ku Klux Klan. A century later, Ava moves in with
her white grandmather and faces danger.
DANGEROUS ALLIANCE: AN AUSTENTACIOUS ROMANCE
JENNIEKE COHEN
HARPER TEEN
RS-1184
Lady Victoria Aston had everything once. but now Vicky
must marry, or find herself destitute. She has no experience to fall back upon
other than what she has read in the pages of June Austen. Will Vicky survive
the marriage game?
THE NEW WORLD DISORDER AND THE INDIAN IMPERATIVE
SHASHI THAROOR, SAMIR SARAN
ALEPH
RS-799
As the end of the second decade of the 21st century
approaches, all about us is choas. The rise of the East is viewed with
suspicion by the West. Two writers study the new world order and explain the
present.
THE CASTE OF MERIT: ENGINEERING EDUCATION IN INDIA
AJANTA SUBRAMANIAN
HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS/ HARPERCOLLINS
RS-699
Through an in-depth study of the elite Indian Institute
of Technology(IITs), an anthropologist reveals the continued workings of
upper-caste privilege within modern institutions. Caste has not disappeared in
India, but acquired a disturbing invisibility, she says.
ROOMANCING WITH REVOLUTION: LIFE AND WORKS OF FAIZ AHMAD FAIZ
ZAHEER ALI
AKAR BOOKS
RS-1295
Faiz Ahmad Faiz, one of the significant Urdu literatures,
started as a romantic poet and then embraced leftist progressive ideology in
the 1930s. As Indian society began to get polarised, Faiz dreamt of a
egalitarian world; has poetry echoed the vision.
GOING PUBLIC:MY TIME AT SEBI
U.K.SINHA
PENGUIN/PORTFOLIO
RS-699
As chief of the Securities and Exchange Board of India,
U.K. Sinha guided the regulatory body through some of its most crucial years.
Under his leadership, SEBI fought a legal battle with Sahara, among other
companies. his memoir takes us through India's changing financial
landscape.







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