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Overdorf</b> <br></p></font></td> <td class="body" valign="top" align="left" width="24%"> <div align="center"><img border="0" hspace="0" src="/web/20030401200901im_/http://atimes.com/atimes/images/oven-book.gif"></div></td></tr></table> </p> <p> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" id="Table2"> <tr> <td width="2%"> <div align="center"> </div> </td> <td align="left" class="body" valign="top" width="74%"> <p><font color="#000000"><font size="2"><a href="/web/20030401200901/http://atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/EC15Df05.html"><strong>The art of keeping the peace</strong> </a><br><i>Trumpets and Tumults. The Memoirs of a Peacekeeper</i>, by Indar Jit Rikhye<br><br>With a track record in peacekeeping around the world second to none, Indian's Major-General Jit Rikhye is a voice worth listening to as he recounts with wit and sincerity his travels and travails of over half a century. - <b>Sreeram Chaulia</b></font> </p></font> </td> <td align="left" class="body" valign="top" width="24%"> <div align="center"><img border="0" hspace="0" src="/web/20030401200901im_/http://atimes.com/atimes/images/trumpets-book.gif"></div> </td> </tr> </table> </p> <p> <table id="Table2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%" border="0"> <tr> <td width="2%"> <div align="center"> </div></td> <td class="body" valign="top" align="left" width="74%"> <p><font color="#000000" size="2"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><a href="/web/20030401200901/http://atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/EC08Df04.html "><strong>The capitalist case for India</strong></a><br><i>The Elephant Paradigm: India Wrestles with Change</i> by Gurcharan Das <br><br>Is India's economy being held back by its democracy? That is the idea put forth in a recently released book, which suggests that privatization is the panacea for all of India's social and political ills. <b>- Shailaja Neelakantan</b> </font></p></font></td> <td class="body" valign="top" align="left" width="24%"> <div align="center"><img border="0" hspace="0" src="/web/20030401200901im_/http://atimes.com/atimes//images/elephant-book.gif"></div></td></tr></table> </p> <p> <table id="Table2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%" border="0"> <tr> <td width="2%"> <div align="center"> </div> </td> <td class="body" valign="top" align="left" width="74%"> <p><font color="#000000" size="2"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size="2"><font size="2"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="/web/20030401200901/http://atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/EC01Df03.html"><strong>Pakistan: The world's next failed state?</strong></a><br> <i>Pakistan: In the Shadow of Jihad and Afghanistan,</i> by Mary Anne Weaver <br> <br> With a profusion of drugs, arms, private militias, fundamentalist ideologies and sectarian violence, what holds Pakistan together? A new book examines the volatile nation's recent history and what could lead to its demise. <b>- Sreeram Chaulia</b> <br> </font></font></font></font></font></font></font><font color="#000000" size="2">   </p></font></td> <td class="body" valign="top" align="left" width="24%"> <div align="center"><img border="0" hspace="0" src="/web/20030401200901im_/http://atimes.com/atimes//images/pakistan-book-2.gif"></div> </td> </tr> </table> </p> <p><br> </p> <p> <table id="Table2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%" border="0"> <tr> <td width="2%"> <div align="center"> </div> </td> <td class="body" valign="top" align="left" width="74%"> <p><font color="#000000" size="2"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size="2"><a href="/web/20030401200901/http://atimes.com/atimes/China/EB22Ad03.html"><strong>The mystery behind Zhu's miracle</strong></a> <br> <i>Zhu Rongji and the Transformation of Modern China</i>, by Laurence J Brahm<br> <br> Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji has been the architect of China's economic boom for over a decade. This book looks at the man behind the transformation of the world's largest market, but, <b>Gary LaMoshi</b> notes, some major questions remain unanswered - perpetuating the mystery of the Chinese economic renaissance. <br><br>   <img border="0" hspace="0" src="/web/20030401200901im_/http://atimes.com/atimes//images/arrow.gif">Brahm interview: <a href="/web/20030401200901/http://atimes.com/atimes/China/EB22Ad02.html">'There are no non-reformers'</a><br> </font></font></font></font></font><font color="#000000" size="2"> </p></font></td> <td class="body" valign="top" align="left" width="24%"> <div align="center"><img border="0" hspace="0" src="/web/20030401200901im_/http://atimes.com/atimes//images/zhu-book.gif"></div> </td> </tr> </table> </p> <p> <br> </p> <p> <table id="Table2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%" border="0"> <tr> <td width="2%"> <div align="center"> </div> </td> <td class="body" valign="top" align="left" width="74%"> <p><font color="#000000" size="2"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="/web/20030401200901/http://atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/EB15Df02.html"><strong><font size="2">A soulful journey<br> </font></strong></a><font size="2"><i>Beyond Time. The Ageless Music of Jagjit Singh</i>, edited by Asharani Mathur<br> <br> Jagjit Singh, who almost single-handedly revived romantic Urdu poetry as an art form in song, now aims to popularize Hindi across multi-lingual India as a connecting language. This book traces his rise from obscurity to fame. - <b>Sreeram Chaulia</b></font></font></font></font></font><font color="#000000" size="2"><br> </p></font></td> <td class="body" valign="top" align="left" width="24%"> <div align="center"><img border="0" hspace="0" src="/web/20030401200901im_/http://atimes.com/atimes/images/beyond-time.gif"></div> </td> </tr> </table> </p> <p> <br> </p> <p> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"> <tr> <td width="2%"> <div align="center"> </div> </td> <td align="left" class="body" valign="top" width="74%"><font size="2"><font color="#000000"><a href="/web/20030401200901/http://atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/EB08Df03.html"><strong>A resounding voice<br> </strong></a><i>The Imam and the Indian: Prose Pieces</i>, by Amitav Ghosh<br> <br> Ghosh the novelist has a formidable reputation and following, but he is also the author of myriad essays, travelogues and genre-defying pieces written for magazines and journals. Many of these are collated in the <i>Iman</i>, and they serve to entrench the writer as a voice to the heard. <strong>- Shailaja Neelakantan</strong><br> </font></font> </td> <td align="left" class="body" valign="top" width="24%"> <div align="center"><img border="0" hspace="0" src="/web/20030401200901im_/http://atimes.com/atimes/images/ghosh-book.gif"></div> </td> </tr> </table> </p> <p> <br> </p> <p> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"> <tr> <td width="2%"> <div align="center"> </div> </td> <td align="left" class="body" valign="top" width="74%"><font size="2"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="/web/20030401200901/http://atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/EB06Df02.html"><strong>Picture imperfect<br> </strong></a><i>Jihadis in Jammu and Kashmir: A Portrait Gallery</i> by K Santhanam, Sreedhar, Sudhir Saxena and Manish<br> <br> This book provides an invaluable, detailed compilation of the organizations involved in the struggle in Jammu and Kashmir. Unfortunately, though, it is little more than this, with minimal analysis of the data, and the authors have mistakenly lumped every dissenting Kashmiri into the category of a terrorist or a jihadi. - <b>Sudha Ramachandran</b></font></font><br></font></font> </td> <td align="left" class="body" valign="top" width="24%"> <div align="center"><img border="0" hspace="0" src="/web/20030401200901im_/http://atimes.com/atimes//images/kashmir-book-1.gif"></div> </td> </tr> </table> </p> <p> <br> </p> <p> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"> <tr> <td width="2%"> <div align="center"> </div> </td> <td align="left" class="body" valign="top" width="74%"><font size="2"><font size="2"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="/web/20030401200901/http://atimes.com/atimes/Korea/EB01Dg01.html"><strong>A Korean exit strategy for the US</strong></a> <br> <i>Korean Endgame: A Strategy for Reunification and US Disengagement,</i> by Selig Harrison<br> <br> At a time when too many Western commentators have taken a myopic view of North Korea, an American foreign-policy analyst who has written on Korean politics for three decades reminds that the ball is in the US court to promote progress toward a unified, de-nuclearized and peaceful Korea. <b>- Sreeram Chaulia </b></font> <br> </font></font></font> </td> <td align="left" class="body" valign="top" width="24%"> <div align="center"><img border="0" hspace="0" src="/web/20030401200901im_/http://atimes.com/atimes//images/korea-book.gif"></div> </td> </tr> </table> </p> <p> <br> </p> <p> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"> <tr> <td width="2%"> <div align="center"> </div> </td> <td align="left" class="body" valign="top" width="74%"><a href="/web/20030401200901/http://atimes.com/atimes/Asian_Economy/EA18Dk01.html "><strong><font size="2">Asia's great and good in trying times</font></strong></a><br> <font size="2"><em>Recreating Asia: Visions for a New Century</em>, by Frank-Jurgen Richter and Pamela C M Mar<br> <br> Compiled by the World Economic Forum, best known for its annual Davos conference, this work tries to take a look at what's ahead for Asian business through a series of essays by leading figures in government and industry. 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