Arthika samskaranalu vyavasaya sankshobham, D. Narsimha Reddy, translator Chandrika, 45 pp, Rs. 25 \nAt a time when farmers’ suicides were rocking Andhra Pradesh, this book linked the tragedy to the economics of agriculture in the state in a simple style. \nProf. D. Narsimha Reddy taught in the department of Economics, University of Hyderabad. Labour Economics and Political Economy of Development have been his areas of research interest. Besides a number of publications, he supervised a large number of M.Phil. and Ph.D. dissertations in these areas. During the last decade he has done extensive work on globalization, WTO and the agrarian crisis. \nChandrika is the nom de plume of a journalist