Wali Dad is my all-time favorite of Aaron's books for children (and they are all a close race!). The comic book style and quality of the illustrations are a pure delight, and the story telling is true and compelling. Do not miss the joy of reading this book to yourself and to any children you know.

`Dear Sir,I read your book and it really described Goa to the fullest. I live in Bombay and own a farm in Goa on the banks of the Dudhsagar River.Our farm called Rivera Farm is situated at Collem about 2 min from the Collem railway station and about 20 min from the Dudhsagar Water Falls. We have developed a huge 20Hecter(50acre) Spice and Horticultural farm, where we grow various spices like Clove,Cinnamon, Nutmeg,Cardamon,Black Pepper etc. & fruits like Mangoes(alphansos), Coconuts, Pineapple, Bananas, Papaya,Betal Nut etc.We have now opened our farm for Public viewing & Nature Lovers. A guided tour is also conducted here, where uses of various spices and their properties are explained. A lot of Tourist from around the world have already visited and have highly praised our achivement. After reading your article about the lack of eating places near the waterfalls,we have started a restaurant here. It is called THE RIVERA SPICE VILLAGE GARDEN Restaurant. Our food has also become very popular with the tourist which includes a varaity of Continental and Local Goan cusine, specialised in fish and jumbo prawns.We also cater for vegeterians. Our food is cooked in a very hygenic enviroment Do write to me for further details at amitchogle@hotmail.com

This is a wonderful book for those who want to know more about the splendidly expansive and imaginative world of English as spoken in South Asia a century ago. With so many words taken over into standard English (veranda, jungle, and the like) from Hindi, Bengali, Tamil, and so many others, it is fascinating to see where they come from. Sort of a supplement to the OED. It is thoroughly enjoyable and scholarly.

Nirmala Shahani, only daughter of an Indian magnate, has dropped out of the California college where her wealthy father has sent her to put the cap on her education before her marriage to the sone of his business partner. The private eye engaged by the anxious Mr. Shahani has reported that she's living in an ashram near Los Angeles. Her father already knows that she's cleaned out her bank account! So Inspector Ghote finds himself in Beverly Hills trying to persuade her to return with him to Bombay, and with the help of Fred Hoskins, a beefy ex-cop - attempting to prove that the Swami With No Name is a confidence trickster instead of an Indian holy man. But Ghote is faced with a puzzle to rival the legendary rope tricks of his native bazaars: how a man could be killed and the murder weapon be made to vanish in a windowless room whose only exit was watched...by the good Inspector himself!

This is the first Suniti Namjoshi work I have read and I was not disappointed.

"This account is autobiographical in that my experience is all I have. It's fictional since any version manipulates facts. And it's mythical, because it's by making patterns that I make sense of all I have."

Suniti is truly a clever woman who writes with great insight about issues of class. I especially loved the conversations with Goja and Goldie. I didn't want the book to end... Once i read the last page I was left thinking: Where can I get the rest of Suniti's books?

This is a wonderful book, well written and offering a rare view of how people in the the Gilgit region really live. The author spent some time in Gilgit living with a local family. She also spent time in Baltistan and offers a view of the life of locals that mountaineers often miss entirely. A fine book.

In my 30 years of study and research of the great works of Buddhism, I have not found a more direct, simple and reader friendly study of the great tenets of Tibetan Buddhism. Lama Mi-Pham a renowned teacher of his age, gave this special study to his regions King. This book lays out the details of how this leader, and each of us, can best deal with the day to day issues of life, love, government and family.

It speaks clearly to each of us. If this is the sort of book you enjoy sinking your teeth in, this book in particular will bring you much to ponder, and is one you will want to re-read any number of times.

Grandmother's Tale was my introduction to Narayan and frankly I have been wondering where he's been all my life. These stories are wonderful. They are the kind of stories that stayed with me for several days after reading them. Narayan brings you to a time and a place with each story. His characters are believable, his stories moving, his writing impecable. Each story is full of humanity. I really enjoyed this collection and look forward to reading more of his work.

Granny Brand was a society woman from London who almost single handedly transformed the culture of the "Mountains of Death" is southern India by her faithful and persistent medical and evangelistic work. This book is on the recommended reading list for the 250,000 members of Bible Study Fellowship

L.C. Jain's 1986 book Grass Without Roots is concerned with the plight of development schemes since independence. The core of this book is what Jain sees as the very real problem of political institutions and the legitimacy of government in Indi. The following quote sums up this thesis nicely:

"the basic reason for the failure of rural development and poverty alleviation programmes is the exclusion of the people from participation in the development process and the abandonment of the institutions of democratic decentralization."

The Forward to Jain's book, written by Rauji Kothari, is even more precise. It singles out the Westminster model as the root of most of the problems plaguing state government in India. In terms very similar to Gandhian apporach, it blames this model for centralizing tendencies and for re-positioning power in India in the hands of the bureaucracy. "The course of economic development is vitally determined by the structure of political power." The solution that is proffered is a complete decentralization of power to the community level. While not a total rejection of the concept of the state, "Grass Without Roots" does call for the creation of Panchayati Raj (a village republic, if I remember correctly), confirming a strong Gandhian influence within this book.