Name : India Across & Around

Author : Prafull Goradia

Book Format : Paperback

Edition : 1

Genre : Literature & Fiction

ISBN : 9789394791060

Language : English

Pages : 201-300 Pages

Publish Year : 2022

Publisher : PRINTS PUBLICATIONS PVT LTD

Sub Genre : Essays Books

Raconteurism is easy to gloss over as possibly a much-hackneyed form of storytelling, this happens to be a more mundane prism of viewing this aspect of conveying a message in the form of tales and anecdotes. Particularly, if the anecdotal approach to the subject attempts to cover the grand canvas of a journey of people and nations; societal and historical.

My latest collection of essays (India : Across & Around) arguably essays a raconteur's ramblings, though with what I dare humbly suggest - a deeper purpose of trying to capture or at least endeavouring to, the changing of the onward journey of peoples and societies, politics and nations; causal and epochal. As an observer of Indian society and politics-the latter from the inside as well-I dare venture the claim that I find myself somewhat perched atop a vantage point of some decades and slightly more, to be able to comment on the changing shades of India and the world through what can justifiably be termed as one of the most tumultuous epochs of human history. Indeed, history might well pronounce its judgement on this period as one that definitively altered the very character and disposition of the human race.From the still vexing question of who actually won freedom from colonial rule- Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose or the Congress party- to the issues still bedevilling the subcontinent, the changing nature of the Indian pol

Country of Origin : India