I had just finished reading this wonderful book on Mohandhas Karamchand Gandhi. It touched my heart. I am only 12 years old and I am very glad to have an uncle like Bhikhu Parekh(the author of the book). I hope you read this great book on how wonderful Gandhi was to his people and how he fought for the independence of his country.

I have read a couple of books by Mr. Zakaria and I am highly impressed by his insight and command of history of India. He is the most capable writers who can confidently write about the events and personalities who formed history of India.

He had been very close to Gandhi, Nehru and Jinnah and fully acquianted with underlying forces that shaped the creation of Pakistan and division of India. Gandhi played a pivotal role in this episode. I was really impressed by Mr.Zakaria's description of events and Gandhi's towering pesonality.

I would recommend that all those who are interested in Indian modern history must read this fascinating narrative by the most capable and knowledable person who has a unique way of studying and analysing historic events.

Its one of the best books I have read on this subject.

This is one of two books, that I sat and read cover to cover, in one stretch. This is the book that all who have personal grudges, anger or hatred towards their fellow men, should read. I know, I have experienced the change. This book allowed me to be calm, forgiving, and compassionate. At times of dispair, I re-read this book and find peace within myself. This book teaches you the way of life, the way to peace. I would highly recommend this book, especially at times, when you think this world is unjust, unfair. I wish the whole world reads this book and make every effort to transform themselves; then there will be peace through the entire universe. Please, please read this book.

Nobody is better qualified to articulate the merits of Mohandas Gandhi than E. Stanley Jones. First, Jones was a close friend of Gandhi's for many years, and second, Jones was a humble enough westernized Christian to see that the brightest shining light of his time was an eastern Hindu.

Although this book is only 160 pages, it is dynamic enough for Martin Luther King Jr. to consider it the best book on Gandhi ever written. I would only add that this book cannot be simply read and understood, it demands to be demonstrated in the life of the reader

The Ganges is the fascinating and informative personal story of one man's pilgrimage along the famous and revered river Ganges, ranging from it's sources in the Himalaya mountains to its ultimate destination in the Bay of Bengal. 123 impressive, unforgettable color photographs enhance a deeply engaging text by contemporary photographer Raghubir Singh. Both image and commentary blend to document Singh's undeniable eye for detail, and fill the 192-pages this remarkable travelogue and memorable tribute to a timeless and sacred river.

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I edited this book for Clancy Clements, a highly accomplished Indiana University professor, and had a great time doing it. It's a thorough look at a fascinating phenomenon: the survival of an exotic form of Portuguese in an isolated area of India for hundreds of years after the Portuguese colonials had been kicked out (c. 1740).

As servants/slaves of the Portuguese, starting about 1520, the ancestors of the people living in present-day Korlai learned enough Portuguese to communicate with the soldiers, missionaries and colonists, grafting the new words onto the grammatical structure of Marathi, their original language. This hybrid became the native language of their descendents--that is, a creole--which survived because of an unusual set of isolating barriers. The people of Korlai were separated from other Portuguese speakers by their low caste; from others of their caste by the fact that they were Catholics rather than Hindu or Moslem; and from the evolving life of India as a whole by geography, as Korlai sits on a small spit of land that until recently made access to the mainland very difficult.

A thoroughgoing linguist, Professor Clements devotes ample attention to such matters as phonemic inventories, phonological processes, stress assignment, syllable structure, paradigm restructuring, paradigm use, lexicon, word formation, semantic borrowing, loan translations, grammatical relation marking, pre- and postnominal modification, negation, subject and object deletion, embedding, word order, that sort of thing. But he is also very interested in the human side of the phenomenon. He devotes particular attention to the intense cultural pressure being placed on the language now that better transportation and a new school have increased opportunities for Korlai's inhabitants to visit and work on the mainland. Professor Clements made many visits to Korlai over a ten-year period, and his fondness for the people comes through in the book, as well as his concern that their language may vanish forever.

Professor Clements frames his discussion by considering theories of contact-induced language change and by numerous comparisons with sister creoles (on which he is an expert), medieval Portuguese and Marathi.

I recently got his book. This is one of the best book about nuclear Strategy.. Author has applied excellent scientific logic and superb original thoughts .. Research about Western doctrine is comprehensive and detailed..he has been successful in co-relating to India's need..

"Chapter 5: the Indian Arsenal" and "Chapter 6: The Command and Control System" seems to be the stuff to read.. reflects the complexity of work to be done..

This is a Must Read book.. I would give 10 out of 5 .. this book is even good for general reading..does not have to be India specific..

Russell and Islam do a very admirable job of portraying the life of Ghalib, what led him to write poetry, lead the lifestyle he did, his whole philosophy of life in a sense. The analysis combined with the selections of poetry make this a very enjoyable and useful book for anyone interested in Urdu poetry and in particular Ghalib.

I thought this was an excellent book that helped construct a frame for me to begin to understand India. After travelling in the country recently, my memories of the book helped me put into perspective what I saw about the Indians, and the times I saw them taking advantage of each other. More importantly, the book described the search for dignity that people of all countries must share. It is a very complex country and I was glad I read this.