V. Raghavan

National Centre for the Performing Arts, Bom­bay deserves all praise for devoting the September 1975 issue of their quarterly journal to Muttuswami Dikshitar, whose 200th birth anniversary was obser­ved with eclat all over the country last year. As rightly pointed out in the Foreword, Dr. Raghavan is eminently suited to be the author of this venture…


Reviewed by: T.R. Subrahmanyam
Raghuvir Sahai

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.


Reviewed by: Mrinal Pande
Bhupal Singh

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.)…


Reviewed by: Sujit Mukherjee
Ian Jack

It has long been acknowledged that Browning is one of the poets best served by severe selection. The task of the editor who wishes to present the best of Browning is made easier by the fact that Browning’s work falls naturally into three periods, of which the middle one might be said to contain almost all his best work…


Reviewed by: Rajeswari Sunder Rajan
Lawrence Durrell

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 fact, one often gets the feeling that Durrell himself—­like most of his characters…


Reviewed by: Tejeshwar Singh
T.P. Ramachandran

In India one does not choose and adopt a philosophical system; one is born into it and grows up in it. This may sometimes prove a disadvant­age, for it is not easy for the leopard to change its spots. If Dr. Ramachandran’s earlier work on The Concept of Vyavaharika in Advaita Vedanta was a model of lucidity and precision…


Reviewed by: K. Swaminathan