Ganesh Prabhakar Pradhan (1922-2010) wrote the first draft of the book under review during a term of imprisonment of eighteen months during the Emergency in 1975 (he completed it in 1979).
The book reviewed here has the sub-title ‘Contributions to the History of the Sanskrit Language’.
Gathering together fifteen papers presented at a two-day international conference at Miranda House (University of Delhi) in January 2010,
In relation to the Bhagavadgita, three extraordinary developments may be said to have occurred in British India.
She was there all along, contributing half the genes to each succeeding generation. Most of the books forget about her for most of the time.
It is not often that we come across a noble theme explained by a worthy writer in a lucid manner. This book definitely belongs to this rare category.
Many of us have on occasion been dubious about the obsession in some circles to explain Indian culture entirely in terms of mysticism.
Barring a few general works dealing with the under-developed countries, the economic surveys by the United Nations commissions and old administrative reports by the erstwhile colonial governments.
Wars generate a spate of books on tactical doctrine. Chaim Herzog’s book adds to the growing literature on the most important war in recent years.
Whenever I think of Indian literature, a story retold by A.K.Ramanujan comes to mind: Hanuman reaches the nether-world in search of Rama’s ring that had disappeared through a hole.
A heart-wrenching account of a child who gets trapped in a flesh trade circle and her relentless struggle to get out of it, Prem Nagar is much more than a work of fiction.
I am the dispensable primate
the blueprint of my promise
in irreparable shreds.