<i>At a glance</i>
Subhas Chandra Bose
The Man and His Times
Lt. Gen. (ret.) Eric A. Vas
Lancer Publishers
More than sixty years after his mysterious disappearance, Bose continues to exercise a hold on the imagination in South Asia. For all the research on Gandhi and Nehru, there has always been the feeling that the Indian nationalist soul was best exemplified by Bose. This work explains why he remains head and shoulders above the others. Interview with History
Oriana Fallaci
Houghton Mifflin
Fallaci died in 2006. And yet this is perhaps one of the books that will remind readers of the intrepid journalist she was. Read here the old interviews --- of an arrogant Shah, an eccentric Bhutto, a calm Indira Gandhi and a statesmanlike Willy Brandt. The interviews cause a lost era to come alive. Fallaci's kind are few and far between. Dreams from My Father
A Story of Race and Inheritance
Barack Obama
Canongate
Obama wrote this book at age thirty three, long before he would be known as a frontrunner for the Democratic presidential nomination in the United States. Yet the lucidity and sheer poetry he employs in the language shows all the signs of promise in him. One wonders why he did not go for fiction writing as a career. Nehru: The Invention of India
Shashi Tharoor
Arcade
Any work on Nehru promises to be a fascinating study of the complex and yet cosmopolitan man India's first prime minister was. And Tharoor himself is a celebrated writer, in addition to having served as under secretary general of the United Nations. This work is therefore a combination of Nehru's intellect and Tharoor's images.
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