Review of “Birds and Plant Regeneration”, Tara Gandhi
I remember a conversation I had with a young bird watcher in Sahayadri School.
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Review of “Social Implications of Schooling: Knowledge, Pedagogy and Consciousness”, Avijit Pathak
This book is a significant contribution to the growing literature on education, particularly school education, and it is written by an Assistant Professor at the Centre for the Study of Social Systems, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.
Review of “Curioser and Curioser”, Neeraja Raghavan
This is a charming fable written by a trained scientist and teacher, ‘for the child in everyone’ as the blurb says.
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Review of “A History of Civilizations”, Fernand Braudel
On one who has had but a passing acquaintance with history, this book had a profound and deep impact. First one learned about the author who was considered ‘a prince among historians’. He belonged to a group of French scholars called Annales, School of Historians. In their quest for ‘total history’, this school included geography,
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Review of “A History of Civilizations”, Fernand Braudel
Ever since History emerged as a major and independent field of study during the time of the 18th Century European Enlightenment – the time of Voltaire, Gibbon, Rousseau and the French Encyclopaedists – the study of history has been subject to pulls in two different directions.
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