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…
Month: May 2007
Reading and appreciating poetry
“”When will that shore appear from which at last we see..How all this came to pass and for what reason?” Reading poetry has been my pastime for long.All my life! Now it has become a passion for me and now it has become a serious pursuit.My tastes and temperament had shaped and changed me to…
Will there be confrontations between the executive and the judiciary?
Indian judiciary is again in the news,as it was during the days in the early 70s when Indira Gandhi was very much making news. Mr.Kuldip Nayar,the veteran journalist has raised the issue of such a possible confrontation(Asian Age 30,April 2007) in the current-goings-on. Nayar in fact puts in so succinctly:just thirty years ago,to be exact…