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Volume I No. 1 – JANUARY – MARCH 1976

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Volume I No. 1 - JANUARY - MARCH 1976By ThebookreviewindiaJuly 18, 2017Leave a comment

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.

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Volume I No. 1 - JANUARY - MARCH 1976By ThebookreviewindiaJuly 18, 2017Leave a comment

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

Poetry of the Grassroots

Volume I No. 1 - JANUARY - MARCH 1976By ThebookreviewindiaJuly 18, 2017Leave a comment

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

Good-bye Tarzan

Volume I No. 1 - JANUARY - MARCH 1976By ThebookreviewindiaJuly 15, 2017Leave a comment

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.

The Sage of Thiruvannamalai

Volume I No. 1 - JANUARY - MARCH 1976By ThebookreviewindiaJuly 15, 2017Leave a comment

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.

The Inscrutable East

Volume I No. 1 - JANUARY - MARCH 1976By ThebookreviewindiaJuly 15, 2017Leave a comment

Many of us have on occasion been dubious about the obsession in some circles to explain Indian culture entirely in terms of mysticism.

The Shadow of Neocolonialism

Volume I No. 1 - JANUARY - MARCH 1976By ThebookreviewindiaJuly 15, 2017Leave a comment

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.

The Fourth Round

Volume I No. 1 - JANUARY - MARCH 1976By ThebookreviewindiaJuly 15, 2017Leave a comment

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.

From Détente to Entente

Volume I No. 1 - JANUARY - MARCH 1976By ThebookreviewindiaJuly 14, 2017Leave a comment

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 Mountbatten Myth

Volume I No. 1 - JANUARY - MARCH 1976By ThebookreviewindiaJuly 14, 2017Leave a comment

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

Nehru: Dreamer or Warrior

Volume I No. 1 - JANUARY - MARCH 1976By ThebookreviewindiaJuly 14, 2017Leave a comment

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