India - Across & Around

Author:

Prafull Goradia

Publisher:

PRINTS PUBLICATIONS PVT LTD

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Publisher

PRINTS PUBLICATIONS PVT LTD

Publication Year 2023
ISBN-13

9789394791060

ISBN-10 939479106X
Binding

Paperback

Number of Pages 207 Pages
Language (English)
Dimensions (Cms) 22 X 14 X 1.5
Weight (grms) 200

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 tide 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 polity (admittedly, this is still a work in progress) and of course, the inexorable chiselling away of the earlier world order to a new-and as yet unclear and still emergent-global arena form the narrative of India: Across & Around. Needless to say, it is anything but a definitive commentary on the rapidly changing life and times. Some essays and a bunch of contemporary (and of course, soon to be dated articles and stories) are a lay observer's humble attempts to make sense of the happenings of the present and the events of the past, with their propensities to shape a future that as of now appears uncertain but is laden with the potency to fundamentally alter man and society.


 

Prafull Goradia

Prafull Goradia, born in Bombay on 27th March 1937, is a specialist of the tea industry, having worked with the biggest tea-brokers in the world and later in his own business. He later made the conscious and resolute decision to quit a comfortable existence to enter the uncertain world of politics, his real passion and constant calling since his adolescence. Elected to Parliament in 1998, as a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), he intervened in several important matters that came up for discussion, making several significant speeches on contemporary issues, participating in debates and contributing to policy making. Prafull Goradia has penned several books: Profiles of Tea, Dear Editor, The Saffron Book, Hindu Masjids, Muslim League's Unfinished Agenda, Anti-Hindus and Saga of Indian Tea, Fly me to the Moon (Bloomsbury India), Krishna Rajya (Bloomsbury India), Saffron Awakening, Had Patel been Prime Minister, Jinnah Helped Hindus, Population Exchange. He has also written over 500 articles on issues of both national and global significance. His letters to editors of national dailies, numbering over 2,800, are useful for transporting contemporary readers over a period of modern India's political journey. He presides over The Indian School in Delhi, which has earned a reputation for offering modern education entwined with traditional Indian ethos.

Reviewed on: Feb 17, 2023
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Reviewed on: Feb 17, 2023
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