When I first opened the book and read through some of Bakshi’s verses, I felt that there was a familiar ring about them of Fitzgerald’s rendering of Omar Khayyam’s verse. As I proceeded further, I came across references to Khayyam also. The structure of the verses too, though not identical, appeared to be a variation of the same basic structure.
Uanhenga Xitu insists on using his Angolan village name, rather than Agostinho Mendes Carvalho, his Portu¬guese name. Already we see the import¬ant and subversive possibilities of the use of language, within reach of an activist writer.
The editors and contributors to this volume have attempted to get scholars, who love various forms of popular western music like Pop, Punk and Heavy Metal, to articulate their understanding and appreciation in a serious manner so that it achieves its rightful place in the academic world. The book is divided into two parts.
In November 1987 academics gathered at the Dyal Singh College, Karnal to discuss the various aspects and facets of the communal problem in India. The volume under review is a collection of the papers presented at the seminar.
Any attempt to find a parallel between Rajgopal’s works on crime and criminals in India and the novels of Charles Dickens would, on the face of it, look odd and far-fetched. Yet the frightening para¬meters of the rapidly worsening crime situation in this country, progressive erosion of human sympathy and compassion in our society and the all-pervasive phenomenon of criminalization of politics portrayed by him bring immediately to mind the London scenario of 1820’s and 30’s.
Indo-Japanese trade has been important since pre-second world war period. How¬ever, while Japan still reaps advantage of such bilateral trade, India has not bene¬fited substantially. On the contrary, when Japanese foreign trade registered rapid expansion, India’s share in Japanese trade declined.