<i>At a glance</i>
Jean Jacques
The Early Life and Work of Jean Jacques Rousseau 1712-1754
Maurice Cranston
Penguin Books It is rather an old book and yet brings alive the story of the early stages in the life of the philosopher. Those who have studied the history of politics will not fail to be impressed with the new, unknown details of Rousseau's life which this work throws up. Rousseau's thoughts have inspired generations spanning the centuries. Here you will spot the growth of a mind. Women & Men in My Life
Khushwant Singh
UBS Publishers' Distributors Limited For Khushwant Singh, life has generally been an amusing spectacle. He has been in the company of the great and the good as also the not so good. And his observations on women have remained unequalled. Something of the poet works in him. In this work, there are signs of his love for some women and there are too the telltale hints of the lust that wells up in him at times. Bondishala Pakistan
Syed Najmuddin Hashim
Shahitya Prakash Rarely was a mind been so disciplined and so shaped in material of the aesthetic kind as that in the late Syed Najmuddin Hashim. In this work, which effectively is a diary where he records the dark days of Bengali incarceration in Pakistan post-December 1971, he records the hope and despair assailing men and women cut off from home. In the process, he spills quite a few beans about men unhappy that Pakistan had become a rump state. Amlar Dinlipi
Shesh Parbo 1987-90
Kazi Fazlur Rahman
Papyrus As the title makes clear, this is the last in a series of journals the retired civil servant has produced over the years. They offer an insight into how the bureaucracy works in a varied set of political conditions. The agonising that civil servants go through as they operate under elected politicians as well as military dictators is well put in these diaries. Future bureaucrats might like to read these diaries.
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