This is a gem of a book for readers interested in a pictorial history of the Nehru families. The family photos are many and beautifully…
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A celebration – Japan and the Culture of the Four Seasons: Nature, Literature, and the Arts
This is not an easy book to read. The intent of this book is excellent. The scope covered to examine the relationship between the four…
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An excellent brief account – D-Day (Turning Points in History)
Readers looking for a detailed history of Operation Overlord should look elsewhere. This concise history of 180 pages is more for the reader who is…
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Exquisite – The Tale of Genji(Roughcut)
There are four famous English translations. The earlier ones are by Arthur Waley and Edward Seidensticker. Here is a review of the two recent English…
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Very readable- The Tale of Genji
There are two recent English translations of this famous Japanese masterpiece. The Royall Tyler’s translation in 2001 and the translation by Dennis Washburn in 2015.…
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An Infectious read – Indira: The Life of Indira Nehru Gandhi
I first read this biography in 2006. Rereading it now that her granddaughter Priyanka Gandhi has entered politics it is still the best biography on…
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A gripping story – In the Heart of the Sea: The Epic True Story that Inspired ‘Moby Dick’
This is easily the best book I read in 2015. Philbrick writes very well. He tells the story briskly and with sufficient background and scientific…
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A gem – Making China Modern: From the Great Qing to Xi Jinping
The strength of this 717-page book is that it presents the latest scholarship on the history of modern China. Klaus has reviewed the latest books…
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Riverting excerpts of an Inquiry – The Amritsar Massacre,1919: General Dyer in the Punjab
As 2019 is the centenary of the Amritsar Massacre , I reread this book which I first read from 25 to 26 June 2006. Both…
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Jinnah explained – The Sole Spokesman
In this book {first published 1985} Ayesha Jalal analysed the evolution of the demand for a Pakistan by Mohamnad Ali Jinnah and the All-India Muslim…
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