Category: India

• Books India

  Calcutta hosts world’s biggest book fair

  I am surprised the BBC didn’t mention the Scottish writer Alexander McCall Smith is in Calcutta (Kolkata) for the Kolkata Book Fair. Maybe the BBC presenter and the Indian correspondent Subir Bhowmik ran out of time discussing the size and scale and the city’s passion for books that has made…

  January 30, 2009
• Books India

  Indira Gandhi

  Indira: The Life of Indira Nehru Gandhi by Katherine Graham I just finished reading Katherine Frank’s biography of Indira Gandhi,  Indira Gandhi was undoubtedly popular for a long time. Spirited, courageous, cultured, artistic, she had many admirable qualities. But I wouldn’t want her back as a leader. Nor her father, Jawaharlal…

  September 6, 2007