Volume I No. 1 – JANUARY – MARCH 1976

It is good to see that at long last imaginative books are being written on otherwise dull subjects. As the name suggests, Kuriyan’s book is indeed a very good general survey of India.

The authors K.C. Aryan (painter, sculptor, and art historian) and his daughter Subhashini Aryan deserve kudos, because they have written knowledgeably on Hanuman.

With the untimely death of Dhoomil in February 1975, modern Hindi literature lost one of its most promising young poets.

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.

In 1963 Maulana Bhashani met Mao in Peking and Mao spoke to him about Pakistan, USA, USSR, and China. China’s relationship with Pakistan was extre­mely fragile at the time, Mao said to Bhashani, and the United States, Russia and India would do their utmost to break this relationship.

The two authors of this book have over the years developed a type of book-making for themselves.

Biography, according to Lytton Strachey, is ‘the most delicate and humane of all the branches of the art of writing’.