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Contemporary Britain

Posted on November 7, 2009October 6, 2010 by V.Isvarmurti

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…

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Jaswant Singh’ expulsion from the BJP on the issue of a scholarly book on Jinnah!

Posted on November 7, 2009October 6, 2010 by V.Isvarmurti

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…

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Ted Hughes, one more British poet – A poet laureate, much rated poet

Posted on August 12, 2009October 6, 2010 by V.Isvarmurti

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…

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Photography as an art comes to the forefront!

Posted on December 8, 2008February 22, 2020 by V.Isvarmurti

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…

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New books on Mahatma Gandhi

Posted on October 26, 2007October 6, 2010 by V.Isvarmurti

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…

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Mark Tully & Co

Posted on July 2, 2007July 2, 2007 by V.Isvarmurti

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…

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World’s great newspapers : How Indian newspapers compare?

Posted on June 6, 2007June 9, 2007 by V.Isvarmurti

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…

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Paul Johnson, the little Englander?

Posted on May 28, 2007October 11, 2010 by V.Isvarmurti

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…

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V. Isvarmurti is a leading public figure from south of India. He is a former member of the then Madras Legislative Council. He had his education at such reputed institutions like Tagore’s Santiniketan and Oxford University. Read More

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