Pandora's Daughters
Autor Kalyani Shankaren Limba Engleză Hardback – 9 mar 2016
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9789382951049
ISBN-10: 9382951040
Pagini: 270
Dimensiuni: 153 x 234 mm
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury India
Locul publicării:New Delhi, India
ISBN-10: 9382951040
Pagini: 270
Dimensiuni: 153 x 234 mm
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury India
Locul publicării:New Delhi, India
Caracteristici
Kalyani
Shankar
is
one
of
the
most
respected
political
commentators
and
columnists
in
India.
Notă biografică
Kalyani
Shankar
is
a
political
commentator
and
columnist.
She
was
Political
Editor
at
Hindustan
Times
and
has
been
its
Washington
correspondent.
She
was
also
a
broadcast
and
television
journalist.Shankar
was
a
Nuffield
press
fellow
at
Cambridge
University
and
senior
fellow
at
the
Woodrow
Wilson
Centre
in
Washington.
She
is
the
author
of
Nixon,
Indira
and
India:
Politics
and
Beyond,
India
and
the
United
States:
Politics
of
the
Sixties
and
Gods
of
Power:
Personality
Cult
and
Indian
Democracy.
Kalyani
Shankar
lives
in
Delhi.
Recenzii
As
a
veteran
journalist,
Kalyani
Shankar
has
long
had
an
inside
track
in
Indian
politics,
perhaps
because
she
is
invariably
perceptive
yet
balanced
in
her
reportage
and
commentary.
Both
characteristics
are
evident
in
this
study
of
eight
very
different
women
who
have
left
their
stamp
on
contemporary
India,
both
influencing
and
making
an
impression
on
India's
polity
far
out
of
proportion
to
the
share
of
women
in
the
higher
echelons
of
our
democracy.
She
delves
into
their
own
variegated
background,
the
unconventional
ways
they
rose
to
the
top,
sometimes
against
their
own
inclination,
and
the
manner
in
which
they
faced
down
their
political
crises,
sometimes
doughty,
sometimes
feisty,
sometimes
even
eccentric,
but
always
determined
and
persistent.Kalyani
Shankar
is
to
be
congratulated
on
this
signal
contribution
to
our
understanding
of
the
single
biggest
lacuna
we
are
still
to
fill
66
years
into
Independence,
namely,
the
incorporation,
involvement
and
participation
of
half
of
all
Indians
in
India's
democracy.
Kalyani Shankar's book is an invaluable contribution to the understanding of contemporary Indian politics. Although woven around top women leaders of our times, the author narrates the evolution of current political trends through the rise and consolidation of power by the most powerful women politicians of today.
Kalyani Shankar has broken new ground with resolute vigour and sound judgement. Pandora Daughter deserves a wide readership.
Kalyani's analysis is significant because it does not restrict itself to a chronological account of the political careers of these powerful women. It dissects their style of functioning, the basis of their power, their strengths and weaknesses, their character traits, and the challenges they face in a male dominated society. In this sense, it provides a fascinating insight into both the inner and external persona of these leaders, and, by extension, into Indian politics as a whole.
Kalyani Shankar's book is an invaluable contribution to the understanding of contemporary Indian politics. Although woven around top women leaders of our times, the author narrates the evolution of current political trends through the rise and consolidation of power by the most powerful women politicians of today.
Kalyani Shankar has broken new ground with resolute vigour and sound judgement. Pandora Daughter deserves a wide readership.
Kalyani's analysis is significant because it does not restrict itself to a chronological account of the political careers of these powerful women. It dissects their style of functioning, the basis of their power, their strengths and weaknesses, their character traits, and the challenges they face in a male dominated society. In this sense, it provides a fascinating insight into both the inner and external persona of these leaders, and, by extension, into Indian politics as a whole.