*A Fine Gift From Lakshmi— Modern Short Stories; Prema Sastri (Songbyrde, 2007, pp 172, Rs 180) These stories are little vignettes of real people that make for an enjoyable reading experience.

*Where Angels Face the Heat; Edel Weis (Pilgrims Publishing, 2007, pp 337, Rs 250) This is the story of a group of intrepid IAF officers who are forced down over Chinese occupied Tibet just before the Indo-China conflict of 1962.

*The Age of Turbulence— Adventures in a New World; Alan Greenspan (Allen Lane, 2007, pp 531, Rs 695) The distillation of a life’s worth of wisdom and insight into an elegant expression of a coherent worldview.

*Democracy in Muslim Societies— The Asian Experience; Edited by Zoya Hasan (Sage, 2007, pp 266, Rs 550) The book questions the widely held view that the socio-political ethos of Islam as a religion and of Muslim countries as societal units, prevents Muslims from adopting democracy as a form of Government.

*Entry from Backside Only— Hazaar Fundas of Indian English; Binoo K John (Penguin Books, 2007, pp 214, Rs 95) From the early days of the Raj, the Indian version of English has been on a growth trajectory that has led to the evolution of what is, for all practical purposes a language of its own!