Author: Eminent Contributors
Publisher: Penguin
Year: 2007
Language: English
Pages: 487
ISBN/UPC (if available): 0143103571
Description
For some years now, it’s been happy season for books and publishing in India. But the most enduring success story in English-language trade publishing in the country—indeed in all of Asia—began long before this.
These commemorative volumes of the finest writing published in trilogy are dedicated to the finest Indian authors and authors of Indian origin anywhere in the world. Showcased here are authors who have topped best-seller charts in India and abroad, and won virtually every major literary prize including the Nobel Prize, the Jnanpith Award, the Man Booker Prize, the Sahitya Akademi Award and the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize.
It is unlikely you will find a richer, more representative collection of writing from or about South Asia. This series of Fiction and Non-Fiction in 5 volumes bring the best in contemporary Indian and international literature to readers everywhere.
Contents
Publisher’s Note xi
The Case of the Bonsai Manager
R. GOPALAKRISHNAN 1
Teardrop on the Cheek of Time
ROYINA GREWAL 8
The Holy Trinity
RAMACHANDRA GUHA 17
A Life Less Ordinary
BABY HALDER 34
Economic Realities
SANJOY HAZARIKA 41
Sun after Dark
PICO IYER 51
Damu
NARENDRA JADHAV 60
The Hindu Nationalist Movement and Indian Politics
CHRISTOPHE JAFFRELOT 69
The Kapoors
MADHU JAIN 74
India’s Politics
BIMAL JALAN 92
J. Krishnamurti
PUPUL JAYAKAR 98
Unveiling India
ANEES JUNG 106
The Indians
SUDHIR KAKAR ? KATHARINA KAKAR 116
To My Countrymen
A.P.J. ABDUL KALAM 135
Dare to Dream
BACHI J. KARKARIA 141
Our Boys
MUKUL KESAVAN 152
The Garb of Modernity
SUNIL KHILNANI 160
Sonia
RASHEED KIDWAI 172
Commentaries on Living
J. KRISHNAMURTI 179
Bombay London New York
AMITAVA KUMAR 186
History and Peace
KRISHNA KUMAR 194
Beyond the Last Blue Mountain
R.M. LALA 201
The Common Man Meets the Mantri
R.K. LAXMAN 210
Yadav
JILL LOWE 215
Chronicle of an Impossible Election
J.M. LYNGDOH 224
A Cricket Causality : Bob Woolmer
PRADEEP MAGAZINE 232
The Boundaries around ‘People Like Us’
ARUN MAIRA 243
Unheard Voices
HARSH MANDER 252
Feast of Love
BHICOO MANEKSHAW 260
Sitara: Dancing Tigress from Nepal
SAADAT HASAN MANTO 266
Partial Recall
ARVIND KRISHNA MEHROTRA 284
Ocean of Wisdom: His Holiness the Dalai Lama
RAJIV MEHROTRA 308
Reinventing the Wheel
GITA MEHTA 315
Caste and Politics: Anti-caste or Anti-upper Caste
PRATAP BHANU MEHTA 320
Maximum City
SUKETU MEHTA 333
The Red Letters
VED MEHTA 344
A variety of Absences
DOM MORAES 354
The Joy in Loving
MOTHER TERESA 367
Assimilation
MADHUSREE MUKERJEE 370
Spectre of Violence
RUDRANGSHU MUKHERJEE 379
May You Be the Mother of a Hundred Children
SUDHA MURTY 385
‘I Was Kicking Someone’
VIJAY NAMBISAN 394
Peasant
ASHIS NANDY 410
Faith
RENUKA NARAYANAN 416
India’s Legal System
FALI S. NARIMAN 424
The Quest
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU 428
Going to the Cinema
PRAN VEVILE 436
Ambedkar
GAIL OMVEDT 443
On Laughter and Celebration
OSHO 453
A Double Life
ALYQUE PADAMSEE 462
Education and the Art of Reading
NANI PALKHIVALA 470
Diddi and Babu
IRA PANDE 478