India’s Westernized elite, cut off from local traditions, ‘want to write a full stop in a land where there are no full stops’. From that striking insight Mark Tully has woven a superb series of ‘stories’ which explore Calcutta, from the Kumbh Mela in Allahabad (probably the biggest religious festival in the world) to the televising of a Hindu epic. Throughout, he combines analysis of major issues with a feel for the fine texture and human realities of Indian life. The result is a revelation. 'The ten essays, written with clarity, warmth of feeling and critical balance and understanding, provide as lively a view as one can hope for of the panorama of India.’ K. Natwar-Singh in the Financial Times

No Full Stops in India

History

MARK TULLY

Asia

Penguin

Penguin India Non Stop India [Paperback] MARK TULLY

Penguin books.India

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Beyond Purdah (Penguin 60s)

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

Penguin Books, Ltd.

Amritsar: Mrs.Gandhi's Last Battle

Satish Jacob

Macmillan

Probing into socio-political issues of post-independent India.

India in Slow Motion

Biographies & Memoirs

Gillian Wright

Community & Culture

Jugaar can loosely be translated as muddling through, or making do. This is undoubtedly a valuable talent and has seen India through numerous crises which could have destabilised a country that is less adaptable four wars, for example. But while jugaar can be seen to have served India well in the past, it has a downside. It has led to a dangerous complacency, the belief that as India has muddled through so many times before, there is no need for urgency in tackling the problems it faces. In Non Stop India veteran journalist Mark Tully draws on his unmatched knowledge of India, garnered from thirty years of living in, and reporting from, the country, to examine how this approach impacts on her much-touted prospects of becoming an economic super-power. From Maoist conflicts to huge industrial houses; from the Tiger project to farmer suicides; from the Ramayana to the remote valleys of the north-east, Tully examines India s myriad negotiations with modernity and her prospects for the next century and beyond.

Non-Stop India

Penguin??Books

From Raj to Rajiv: 40 Years of Indian Independence

Tully

Masani

UBS Publishers'

The Kumbh Mela

Religion & Spirituality

Worship & Devotion

Indica Books

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Upcountry Tales: Once Upon a Time in the Heart of India

Speaking Tiger Publishing Pvt. Ltd.

Vintage stories with the unique flavour [and] lilt of the purvaiya (easterly winds)Tully underpins his witty clear-sightedness with empathy[A] master storyteller.Financial Express In this delightful collectionhis second work of fictionone of the most celebrated observers of Indian politics and society takes us back to the 1980s, when India was at a crossroad and economic liberalization was yet to happen. Set in the villages of eastern Uttar Pradesh, these are stories about ordinary people finding memorable ways to deal with bad governance, inequality and corruption. A timid, elderly Dalit defies tradition to build a temple; a farmers wife plots to save her family from the follies of her tractor-hating husband; a retired headmistress leads the fight to save an endangered railway line; a politicians son discovers that politics isnt a family business after all; a peaceable, unambitious sub-inspector surprises everyone by solving a high-profile murder. Marked by warmth, wit and a keen and compassionate eye for the everyday human theatre of rural India, Upcountry Tales is a supremely engaging collection.

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