As much about food as it is about good writing, this book serves up a veritable feast for the senses and food for thought to sample or devour, as one pleases. nilanjana s roy.

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Thompson, Christopher Hill, Rodney Hilton, George Rud, A.L.

Morton and others. Kiernan, as Christopher Hill observed, ‘is one of the most versatile of British historians’, and his interests spread across time and continents.

Reproduced here is a selection of Kiernan’s historical writings on India, on the Urdu poets Faiz and Iqbal, and his reminiscences of his India years. The volume also contains an appreciation of the historian and the man by Eric Hobsbawm; a lengthy study of Kiernan’s work by Harvey J.

Kaye; and an Introduction by the editor. Across Time And Continents is a delightful introduction to an outstanding historian of the Marxist school, one of the finest writers of English prose, and a fighter for a better world.

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, apart from travel encounters and also many tricky and complicated job situations relating to P. R.

The whims and fancies of many bosses, tantrums of media professionals, apart for encounters during travel all over India make this book immensely interesting and enjoyable. s n surkund.

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A city imagined and real, its heroes saluted, its talent celebrated, its past remembered, its weaknesses satirised, its future brooded over and its small-town quirks relished (less)

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