Volume I No. 4 – OCTOBER – DECEMBER 1976

There already exist two full-length studies on Satyajit Ray: a biographical study by Marie Seton and Robin Wood’s Apu Trilogy.

The book under review is part of the ‘India Library’ series not ‘learned treatises on Indology, nor meant to be reference works.

National Centre for the Performing Arts, Bom­bay deserves all praise for devoting the September1975 issue of their quarterly journal to Muttuswami Dikshitar.

This is Raghuvir Sahai’s third volume of poems. His two previous ones: Seedhiyon Par Dhoop Mein (1960) and Atmahatya Ke Viruddha (1967) have al­ready established him as a major Hindi poet of the post-sixties.

Anglo-Indian fiction has generally interested non­-Indians more than Indians, hence it is appropriate that Bhupal Singh’s pioneering work should achieve a new impression under the joint imprint of Curzon Press (London) and Rowman & Littlefield (Totowa N.J.).

It has long been acknowledged that Browning is one of the poets best served by severe selection.

Monsieur fascinates, is full of many interesting possibilities, yet does not quite succeed. Durrell,sadly, does not develop more fully the many curious, inter-linked themes that he interjects along the tortuous way of this novel within a novel.

In India one does not choose and adopt a philosophical system; one is born into it and grows up in it.

One of the chief manifestations of the Hindu preoccupation with purity and pollution is in relation to food and its preparation.

The book under review which was the author’s Ph.D. dissertation is a welcome addition to the exis­ting material on Muslim politics in India.

Sub-titled Decline and Fall of the British Empire, this book, by an ex-officer of the Royal Air Force who was an equerry of King George VI.

Dag Hammarskjold and the Congo Crisis are both fascinating subjects, joined together by the United Nations connection.