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Volume I No. 4 – OCTOBER – DECEMBER 1976

A Film-Maker’s Musings

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

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

Indian Music

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

Between Fear and Courage

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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.

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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.).

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

Nunquam Continued

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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.

Pluralistic Theism

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

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

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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.

All The King’s Horses

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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.

Tribute to Hammarskjold

Volume I No. 4 - OCTOBER - DECEMBER 1976By ThebookreviewindiaJuly 26, 2017Leave a comment

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

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