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Contemporary Britain »
by John McCormick, Palgrave macmillan, 2007
Decline of Britain?
Yes, certainly, it looks like that! I was surprised and saddened to read this book. Surprised to see that Britain as most Indians know it for all these years, the Britain of the great empire is now shrunken into a small nation of just 6o million people, even [...]
Jaswant Singh’ expulsion from the BJP on the issue of a scholarly book on Jinnah! »
He is clearly the hero and would prove to be a hero for the future too!
BJP acts in a childish manner and behaves in rash ways and that spells doom and disintegration of the major Opposition party.
There is a crisis within the BJP! This crisis, as pointed our by Jaswant Singh himself on the eve [...]
Ted Hughes, one more British poet - A poet laureate, much rated poet »
Letters of Ted Hughes
edited by Christopher Read
Faber and Faber, London, 2007, pp 755
A poet couple, Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath made twentieth century English poetry known for its unique impact on the imagination of a generation and also much beyond the British shores and the Atlantic Ocean, as it were! Yes, Ted Hughes (TH) was [...]
Photography as an art comes to the forefront! »
There have been somehow a good many number of books on the art of photography and also photographic exhibitions are on the rise lately.
In Bangalore, I visited two photo exhibitions, all top class, French names I forget but I remember Cartier Bresson’s widow curating one and two other Frenc names.
One Mr.Poddar is single handedly devoting [...]
New books on Mahatma Gandhi »
Gandhi’s role in India’s Partition
There are about 400 and odd books on Mahatma Gandhi alone. This vast output is besides Gandhi’s own writings and letters that are collected into some one hundred volumes by the Indian government. Every country that had leaders of great national importance, from dictators to democrats, from Lenin, Stalin to Mao [...]
Mark Tully & Co »
When British authors write of India
Indians have to take it with a pinch of salt!
India’s unending Journey
by Mark Tully,2007,pp 278 Rider,London
This is a book by the famous BBC Chief of Bureau for some 22 years and an much-admired writer and presenter of programmes on the BBC. Sir Mark Tully,born in Kolkatta in 1935, [...]
World’s great newspapers : How Indian newspapers compare? »
Book Review
Media Monolith
by Mark Tungate,2004,pp 260
Worldwide,newspapers seem to be growing in strength.Says the World Association of Newspapers(WAN) that in spite of the TV,the Internet and other digital distribution channels, it is the print media,the newspapers that has reported sales growth of 2.3 per cent last year.And more interestingly,it is India and China that are [...]
Paul Johnson, the little Englander? »
Book Review: Paul Johnson
Creators -from Chaucer to Shakespeare to Victor Hugo to Picasso and Disney
Harper Collins,2006,pp300
The English people of today seem to be caught in an identity crisis of their own.Lost their empire and with that has gone their assumed plumes of hauteur and bluster.The English,more than the ordinary Brits,the so-called establishment as such is [...]
Prof.Antony Cruz : Book Review »
Title of the book “Payanmuraith Thirnaivu NutpangalLiterary criticism: some practical insights,applications.
Author: Prof.Antony Cruz,Professor and Head of the Department,Tamil studies,St.Joseph College(autonomous),Trichinapalli,India
This is a brief and yet a highly accomplished exercise in literary criticism covering some unsual fields in literature in the Tamil langauge.Just in 150 pages,with 15 chapters,the essays collected here deal with topics and fields [...]
All the guilty men of India’s Partition! »
Shameful Flight,The Last Years of the British Empire in India, by Stanley Wolpert pp 231,OUP, 2006
This book by a serious scholar of India’s modern history,an authoritative writer on Gandhi and Jinnah,has now produced a book that would give us,Indians of the older and younger generations, a new perspective and a thoroughly balanced account of [...]
