Mark Tully:
One of India's favorite Briton, who loves India and has been living, traveling and writing about India. Born in Calcutta of preindependent India, Tully spent early years of his first decade in India, later moved to England for schooling. He joined BBC in 1964 and became the Chief of the Bureau in Delhi where he still lives and works.
No Full stops in India:
As chief of BBC, Mark Tully traveled the length and breadth of India and this book on India is a collection of ten well studied essays. All the essays whether on 'Ram Chander' - his cook and private help- or on Operation Blue thunder, his simple and candid writing style does not let you put it down till the end.
Critic's view:
Being written by a non-indian about India , I was feeling a lack of depth in Tully's understanding of Poverty in India. In Ram Chander's story, the first essay in the book, the description of the conduct of marriage, the dowry system in India seemed very peripheral.
' New Imperialism ', the essay which talks of Cultural imperialism where every Indian in conditioned to believe that everything non-indian or western is superior is a true observation. Other essays in the book are first hand accounts of events that Tully happened to report as part of his job as the chief editor of BBC.
Borrowing Piers Brendon’s words in the ‘Mail on Sunday’ ( from the cover page of the book ) : this book is essential reading for anyone interested in a civilization mainly punctuated by Question Marks.
One of India's favorite Briton, who loves India and has been living, traveling and writing about India. Born in Calcutta of preindependent India, Tully spent early years of his first decade in India, later moved to England for schooling. He joined BBC in 1964 and became the Chief of the Bureau in Delhi where he still lives and works.
No Full stops in India:
As chief of BBC, Mark Tully traveled the length and breadth of India and this book on India is a collection of ten well studied essays. All the essays whether on 'Ram Chander' - his cook and private help- or on Operation Blue thunder, his simple and candid writing style does not let you put it down till the end.
Critic's view:
Being written by a non-indian about India , I was feeling a lack of depth in Tully's understanding of Poverty in India. In Ram Chander's story, the first essay in the book, the description of the conduct of marriage, the dowry system in India seemed very peripheral.
' New Imperialism ', the essay which talks of Cultural imperialism where every Indian in conditioned to believe that everything non-indian or western is superior is a true observation. Other essays in the book are first hand accounts of events that Tully happened to report as part of his job as the chief editor of BBC.
Borrowing Piers Brendon’s words in the ‘Mail on Sunday’ ( from the cover page of the book ) : this book is essential reading for anyone interested in a civilization mainly punctuated by Question Marks.
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