A tapestry of colonial life Fanny Parkess journals trace her journey from prim memsahib to sitar-playing Indophile and are greatly enjoyable accounts, discovers William Dalrymple.
Al-Qaida uncovered The authors account of his meeting with bin Laden in the Tora Bora caves forms the high point of the book.
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Mirror on life If one wants to make the point that women writers are writers who happen to be female, and can write on subjects other than the female experience too the vicissitudes of life, in different shades, as the introduction describes it Three Sides of Life offers good examples.
God, a woman? Coelhos book celebrates female divinity in a way that evokes both exhilaration and sorrow, his trademark style.
The nations conscience is divided between whether to retain incumbent President Abdul Kalam or anoint a woman president in the form of Pratibha Patil. Will the UPA candidate Ms Patil make a better constitutional head than Mr Kalam? Certainly not, feel a majority of Deccan Herald readers. Since Ms Patil will become a pawn in the hands of her political boss, they want someone with a firm hand to be in the post.
