The Book I Won't be Writing and Other EssaysOrient Blackswan, 2003 - 329 sayfa H. Y. Sharada Prasad Has Lived Through Interesting Times, Turbulent Times, Times Of Great Hope And Dispair. He Has Been Witness To Some Momentous Events Of Recent Indian History. This Book Captures Some Of These Moments In Elegantly Crafted And Sometimes Delightfully Anecdotal Prose. |
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The Book I Wont Be Writing | 1 |
INDIRA GANDHI | 2 |
THE POLITICAL INHERITANCE | 5 |
A Prophet Disowned | 7 |
Three Prime Ministers | 11 |
He Began It All | 21 |
The Succession | 25 |
The Other Saviour | 31 |
March of Ugliness | 175 |
Content Analysis of a Conservative Mind | 181 |
The Crorepati Lure | 185 |
SOME AUTHORS AND ARTISTS | 189 |
Sadasivam and Subbulaksmi | 191 |
Shivarama Karanth | 195 |
R K Narayan | 201 |
Mallikarjun Mansur | 204 |
THE WAYS OF POWER | 37 |
First Among Unequals | 39 |
The Head of the Indian Political Family | 42 |
Limits to Greatness | 49 |
Only a Few Good Men in the Political Jungle | 54 |
J P | 59 |
Morarji Desai | 62 |
S Nijalingappa | 68 |
INSTRUMENTS OF POWER | 73 |
The Shape of the Kitchen | 75 |
Advice and Advisers | 80 |
P N Haksar | 84 |
Is Our Bureaucracy Good Enough? | 88 |
Heavenborn Once | 95 |
Diplomacy | 100 |
A Triumph Shared by Two Nations | 107 |
Was the Emergency Unavoidable? | 112 |
The Doodler | 115 |
Ali Baba in Anand Bhawan | 121 |
A Cold Dinner Far Away | 124 |
VALUES AND VOGUES | 127 |
Back to Education | 129 |
The Scientific Approach | 132 |
Neglected Children of Uncaring Ministries | 138 |
Must We Teach Children to be Dishonest? | 143 |
From Gandhis Dhoti to Gujrals Safari Suit | 148 |
Taking Teddy Bears to Bed | 152 |
Discrimination Begins Early | 156 |
More Sanskrit? | 161 |
The ThreeLetter Bogeyman | 166 |
Even Prayer is a Privilege | 171 |
G Tendulkar | 210 |
K K Hebbar | 213 |
Raghubir Singh | 219 |
A K Ramanujan | 225 |
R K Laxman | 228 |
A Young Woman in Her Eighties | 233 |
THE INFORMATION | 235 |
Information Abounds So Does Ignorance | 237 |
Who Pays the Bill? | 242 |
Televisionaries | 247 |
A Plaything | 253 |
The Art of the Press Conference | 259 |
Politicians and the Press | 263 |
ART OF WRITING | 269 |
The Heart of Writing | 271 |
On Editing | 274 |
To Whom Does English Belong? | 280 |
Faithful Friend Formidable Foe | 284 |
PASSING THOUGHTS | 289 |
On Nervousness | 291 |
Some Harmless Dislikes and Pointless Rules | 296 |
Genes and Genius | 300 |
Its Insatiable Hunger | 305 |
The Apology Epidemic | 310 |
A Love Story | 314 |
On Being a Child Prodigy | 318 |
Four Little Bells | 323 |
Three Tales About a Sage | 327 |
An Afterword 331 | |
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