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Non Stop India
About the Book: Non-Stop India The much-anticipated follow-up to the bestselling No Full Stops in India now available in paperback! Poised to become one of the major economies of the twenty-firstcentury, India at times seems unmindful of questions on thesustainability of such growth and its effect on the stability ofthe nation. Veteran journalist and bestselling author of No FullStops in India, Mark Tully travels across India to turn thespotlight on the everyday concerns of the common man in areas suchas governance and business, spirituality and ecology. In revealinginterviews with captains of industry and subsistence farmers,politicians and Dalits, spiritual leaders and bandits, he capturesthe voices of the nation even as he celebrates its vibrant historyand incredible potential. About Author: Mark Tully Sir Mark Tully was born in Calcutta, India, in 1935. He was theChief of Bureau, BBC, New Delhi, for twenty-two years, was knightedin the New Years Honours list in 2002 and was awarded the PadmaBhushan in 2005. Today, his distinguished broadcasting careerincludes being the regular presenter of the contemplative BBC Radio4 programme Something Understood. His books include No Full stopsin India, The Heart of India, India in Slow Motion (written withhis partner and colleague Gillian Wright) and Indias UnendingJourney. He lives in New Delhi. Reviews Tully report s on the various Indias behind the headlines- Hindustan Times Through Tullys probing eyes, one discovers the complex workingsof the Indian democracy- Telegraph
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First published January 1, 2011
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53 books132 followersSir William Mark Tully was the Chief of Bureau for the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) in New Delhi for 22 years. Schooled in England, he stayed mostly in India covering all major incidents in South Asia during his tenure. He was made an Officer of The Order of the British Empire in 1985 and was awarded the Padma Shree in 1992, a rare distinction for a non-Indian. He was knighted in the 2002 New Year Honours. In 2005 he received the Padma Bhushan.
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April 3, 2012
Book Review published in Freedom First Magazine No. 538 April 2012
India is a complex place. There’s some of everything here and it defies a simple definition. You can’t truly know it till you’ve lived here. Some have called it a “muddle,” some have called it “incredible,” others have called it “shining.” Mark Tully calls it “non-stop.” Where others have used adjectives or nouns, Tully seems to use a verb, and this gives it a dynamic, vibrant quality, much like the cover of this book. They say don’t judge a book by its cover, but in this case, I have to say, I did. And I was both, pleased and disappointed by it.
Mark Tully’s reputation precedes him. He’s a veteran newsman of the old-fashioned kind. He believes in reporting news, not creating it. He is understated and gentle, preferring to let the people speak for themselves – a far cry from the often shrill pontificating that masquerades as news these days. And this comes through in this quiet and understated book.
Tully writes in the introduction, “...All the institutions essential for a democracy to function are in place. There are legislatures right down to the village level, elections, as I have said, are regularly held, there is a civil service, there are courts, the press is free. Furthermore there are politicians, bureaucrats, lawyers and journalists who know exactly what their responsibilities should be, and how their institutions should function…Having lived in India for more than forty years I have become affected by the widespread cynicism about governments and governance in this country.” But he remains optimistic about India’s future because he believes that India will find a way to make existing institutions work the way they were meant to.
The book is written in ten chapters that span the whole spectrum of what you read in the papers these days, from Dalits, to Naxals to the debate on English vs. regional languages, community building initiatives to tigers. Depending on the reader’s interests, some chapters may be of more interest than others. The subjects are presented with the old-fashioned reporter’s motto of letting the people be heard. They are interviews of people Tully and Gillian meet on their travels. He doesn’t insert himself into the narrative wherever possible, and other than framing questions, quotes the voices directly. They speak, he listens, and he moves on to his next destination. This makes for interesting and engaging reading because it isn’t often these days that you get to know about original data that is gathered. We are so bombarded with the rush to analyze and speculate and judge and offer solutions.
As you read through the chapters, you move from one village to another, with Tully telling you where you are to go next. He’s certainly not a bad guide to have. Tully, after all is better informed about India than most of us, he has had a ring-side seat to almost all major historical events in the country, by virtue of his being a “foreigner,” and I have been given to understand that he is a self-effacing, good man. Readers will have no problem letting themselves be taken through this book on a non-stop tour of India with Tully as their capable guide. One may suggest that he should have expanded the itinerary a bit. Too much - more than half - of the book is based in North India and this reflects the general tendency of the media to focus on “north-of-the- Vindhyas” stories. Like any journey, once in a way, the telling can get tedious, the writing is a bit uneven, but it is engaging enough to keep going.
There’s the slight problem of classifying this book – is it a travel book, is it literature, is it academic, political, current events? Is it analysis, reportage, storytelling? Is it meant for students or those unfamiliar with India? It is some of these, none of others, but finally, the answer came to me once again, as I stared at the cover. It is, essentially, a book of folk tales: stories of the land, real stories about real people told in the oral tradition. And at this level it works wonderfully. Chapters such as Caste Overturned and Building Communities for this reason work especially well.
Having said this, it is difficult to criticize the book. Let me explain why I say that. It’s certainly not because I loved everything about it.
There’s an old trick that anyone who’s in management – or married – knows. It’s called taking the zing out of the argument. It goes something like this: “I know you think I was insensitive yesterday but that was not my intention.” Well then, nobody can respond to that by telling you that you were insensitive yesterday. They would be stating the obvious, something you already told them you knew.
Similarly, in his introduction, Tully says, “The chapters in this book are all stories of my travels…they are not analyses.” He says it’s always difficult to write for two audiences. And he says that there are difficulties writing prose when you’ve been a radio journalist your whole life. There goes the zing from any criticism I may have of this book.
These, indeed, are the three main problems with the book. But the way I see it, naming the beast does not make it disappear. Tully is clearly self-aware – a good quality in anyone, especially a reporter. But this does not let Tully off the hook. It may have been perfectly acceptable for many journalists, some even well known ones. But one holds somebody like Mark Tully to a higher standard. From a veteran like him, at the age of 76, with his range of experience, one has higher expectations.
First, he says these are stories, not analyses. But even read as stories, the story-teller must offer something of himself. If my grandmother tells me a story, I expect something more of her in the telling, in the message, indeed in the analysis from her experiences, than if a younger sibling were to tell the same tale. Does India need a “sympathizer” who tells a bland tale? Being sympathetic does not mean being soft. Tully is called an honorary Indian and yet retains that he is a foreigner. With the best of both worlds, he should be brave enough to speak his mind and offer his insights into the stories he hears.
As readers, we expect something of his wisdom, some analysis other than the refrain that becomes redundant by the end of the book: “If governance issues are resolved, India would be non-stop.”
Second, it is difficult to write for dual audiences. One wants broad strokes, the other wants more detail. The Preface to the Indian Edition suggests that the main text is the same for both audiences. Like Aesop’s fable, when you try to please everyone, you end up pleasing no one. At many points, Indian readers will find that the book sinks into what I call the daal-soup, naan-bread category of narrative. It is tedious to read through superfluous explanations of known items time and again and this does not ease up as the chapters progress. So perhaps the chapters were meant to stand alone and be read in any order. It is a little baffling why Tully would not have insisted that the publishers have the text modified for separate audiences. This could easily have been fixed with a few smart copy-editors on the job.
And third, the difficulty of writing prose. While nobody is expecting literature from Tully, we certainly expect more meat in his content. There is a difference between the spoken and the written narrative and he must control, if not master, the media he presents in. This would mean that he put more of himself and his thoughts onto the written page. Other than in the introduction, there’s not much of Tully in this book. The same aloofness that makes him an excellent radio reporter lets him down in print.
So in the end, when you’re done reading the book, there is a sense that something is missing. Reading the chapters was like browsing through a solo exhibition in an art gallery. Each painting is interesting on its own; some are more detailed, more appealing than others. But at the end of your walk-through, you are left wondering what the theme was. What was the artist trying to say? Did he, in fact, want to say anything?
The key element that’s missing in this narrative is the author’s passion. There’s a reluctance to immerse into the landscape fully, and ultimately, this lack of critical engagement with the subject is what was truly disappointing about the book.
India is a complex place. There’s some of everything here and it defies a simple definition. You can’t truly know it till you’ve lived here. Some have called it a “muddle,” some have called it “incredible,” others have called it “shining.” Mark Tully calls it “non-stop.” Where others have used adjectives or nouns, Tully seems to use a verb, and this gives it a dynamic, vibrant quality, much like the cover of this book. They say don’t judge a book by its cover, but in this case, I have to say, I did. And I was both, pleased and disappointed by it.
Mark Tully’s reputation precedes him. He’s a veteran newsman of the old-fashioned kind. He believes in reporting news, not creating it. He is understated and gentle, preferring to let the people speak for themselves – a far cry from the often shrill pontificating that masquerades as news these days. And this comes through in this quiet and understated book.
Tully writes in the introduction, “...All the institutions essential for a democracy to function are in place. There are legislatures right down to the village level, elections, as I have said, are regularly held, there is a civil service, there are courts, the press is free. Furthermore there are politicians, bureaucrats, lawyers and journalists who know exactly what their responsibilities should be, and how their institutions should function…Having lived in India for more than forty years I have become affected by the widespread cynicism about governments and governance in this country.” But he remains optimistic about India’s future because he believes that India will find a way to make existing institutions work the way they were meant to.
The book is written in ten chapters that span the whole spectrum of what you read in the papers these days, from Dalits, to Naxals to the debate on English vs. regional languages, community building initiatives to tigers. Depending on the reader’s interests, some chapters may be of more interest than others. The subjects are presented with the old-fashioned reporter’s motto of letting the people be heard. They are interviews of people Tully and Gillian meet on their travels. He doesn’t insert himself into the narrative wherever possible, and other than framing questions, quotes the voices directly. They speak, he listens, and he moves on to his next destination. This makes for interesting and engaging reading because it isn’t often these days that you get to know about original data that is gathered. We are so bombarded with the rush to analyze and speculate and judge and offer solutions.
As you read through the chapters, you move from one village to another, with Tully telling you where you are to go next. He’s certainly not a bad guide to have. Tully, after all is better informed about India than most of us, he has had a ring-side seat to almost all major historical events in the country, by virtue of his being a “foreigner,” and I have been given to understand that he is a self-effacing, good man. Readers will have no problem letting themselves be taken through this book on a non-stop tour of India with Tully as their capable guide. One may suggest that he should have expanded the itinerary a bit. Too much - more than half - of the book is based in North India and this reflects the general tendency of the media to focus on “north-of-the- Vindhyas” stories. Like any journey, once in a way, the telling can get tedious, the writing is a bit uneven, but it is engaging enough to keep going.
There’s the slight problem of classifying this book – is it a travel book, is it literature, is it academic, political, current events? Is it analysis, reportage, storytelling? Is it meant for students or those unfamiliar with India? It is some of these, none of others, but finally, the answer came to me once again, as I stared at the cover. It is, essentially, a book of folk tales: stories of the land, real stories about real people told in the oral tradition. And at this level it works wonderfully. Chapters such as Caste Overturned and Building Communities for this reason work especially well.
Having said this, it is difficult to criticize the book. Let me explain why I say that. It’s certainly not because I loved everything about it.
There’s an old trick that anyone who’s in management – or married – knows. It’s called taking the zing out of the argument. It goes something like this: “I know you think I was insensitive yesterday but that was not my intention.” Well then, nobody can respond to that by telling you that you were insensitive yesterday. They would be stating the obvious, something you already told them you knew.
Similarly, in his introduction, Tully says, “The chapters in this book are all stories of my travels…they are not analyses.” He says it’s always difficult to write for two audiences. And he says that there are difficulties writing prose when you’ve been a radio journalist your whole life. There goes the zing from any criticism I may have of this book.
These, indeed, are the three main problems with the book. But the way I see it, naming the beast does not make it disappear. Tully is clearly self-aware – a good quality in anyone, especially a reporter. But this does not let Tully off the hook. It may have been perfectly acceptable for many journalists, some even well known ones. But one holds somebody like Mark Tully to a higher standard. From a veteran like him, at the age of 76, with his range of experience, one has higher expectations.
First, he says these are stories, not analyses. But even read as stories, the story-teller must offer something of himself. If my grandmother tells me a story, I expect something more of her in the telling, in the message, indeed in the analysis from her experiences, than if a younger sibling were to tell the same tale. Does India need a “sympathizer” who tells a bland tale? Being sympathetic does not mean being soft. Tully is called an honorary Indian and yet retains that he is a foreigner. With the best of both worlds, he should be brave enough to speak his mind and offer his insights into the stories he hears.
As readers, we expect something of his wisdom, some analysis other than the refrain that becomes redundant by the end of the book: “If governance issues are resolved, India would be non-stop.”
Second, it is difficult to write for dual audiences. One wants broad strokes, the other wants more detail. The Preface to the Indian Edition suggests that the main text is the same for both audiences. Like Aesop’s fable, when you try to please everyone, you end up pleasing no one. At many points, Indian readers will find that the book sinks into what I call the daal-soup, naan-bread category of narrative. It is tedious to read through superfluous explanations of known items time and again and this does not ease up as the chapters progress. So perhaps the chapters were meant to stand alone and be read in any order. It is a little baffling why Tully would not have insisted that the publishers have the text modified for separate audiences. This could easily have been fixed with a few smart copy-editors on the job.
And third, the difficulty of writing prose. While nobody is expecting literature from Tully, we certainly expect more meat in his content. There is a difference between the spoken and the written narrative and he must control, if not master, the media he presents in. This would mean that he put more of himself and his thoughts onto the written page. Other than in the introduction, there’s not much of Tully in this book. The same aloofness that makes him an excellent radio reporter lets him down in print.
So in the end, when you’re done reading the book, there is a sense that something is missing. Reading the chapters was like browsing through a solo exhibition in an art gallery. Each painting is interesting on its own; some are more detailed, more appealing than others. But at the end of your walk-through, you are left wondering what the theme was. What was the artist trying to say? Did he, in fact, want to say anything?
The key element that’s missing in this narrative is the author’s passion. There’s a reluctance to immerse into the landscape fully, and ultimately, this lack of critical engagement with the subject is what was truly disappointing about the book.
October 5, 2016
Mark Tully, as a BBC correspondent in New Delhi, made India his second home. Any outsider's perspective on India has a potential to offer unbiased review over happenings in our country. But, at the same time, it is also fraught with a danger of misunderstanding India. But, Tully offers best of both worlds. He takes a balanced view in analyzing India's growth and development story. His extensive knowledge of India, his ability to speak fluent Hindi make his insight all the more reliable.
August 3, 2020
India captured in all its peculiarities, in a manner that is delectable and delightful. Mark Tully lays out a compilation that manages to move the heart, mind and soul in one soft tug
November 1, 2019
This book is a collection of ten brilliantly elucidated essays that cover the indian social caste and class, religion, politics, wildlife, business, bureaucracy, agriculture and socio-political environment.
With deep-rooted knowledge about everything Indian, Mark Tully writes crisply and proves yet again why he is one of the best contemporary narrators of everything Indian.
With deep-rooted knowledge about everything Indian, Mark Tully writes crisply and proves yet again why he is one of the best contemporary narrators of everything Indian.
November 7, 2018
Picked this up at the Varanasi airport and read throughout a month traveling in India. I appreciated the many topics—from religion to language to politics to agriculture and the environment—and the unique complexities that conspire to make modern India what it is today. I found it fascinating how many of the questions that arose as I traveled I only had to wait a chapter or two to find the answer in this book, as though the author anticipated what I might want to know about this bewildering and beguiling place; it even confirmed that, yes, the word pajama did come to English from Hindi! I thought the book was a bit slow going, but ultimately gave a good broad-brushstrokes insider/outsider perspective with lots of local stories and color that made sense for anyone visiting India for the first time; I've even recommended it to friends who live there. The book may be too dry/in the weeds for those who have not yet visited the country to put it into context.
February 2, 2019
Semi-interesting. One struggles to pick any central theme in this collection of long essays. As standalone pieces, they are mildly engaging. But there's nothing that ties them together into one cohesive body of work. Tully's empathy for Indians is well-documented. So is his insight into the politics of the land. Both these qualities are on display in 'Non Stop India'. What fails the book is the fact that it doesn't tell you anything you don't know already. Can't help but feel a little let down considering the author's pedigree.
July 7, 2015
Mark Tully is known for his deep understanding of India. At times you get a feeling that he is more Indian than Indians. In the book, Tully uses many current events to delve into the little-known facets of the country's socio-political landscape. The book traces the fast-moving changes in India, and true to the journalist that he is, he sources the insights from the very people who are driving the changes.
May 20, 2018
The book has managed to cover a wide variety of fields which have a huge impact on India's growth and development. Although, the book has taught me a lot of new things but the stats given in the book are quite old for someone who is reading it or planning to read it, on the current date. All and all, the book has been written after a lot of quality research and has given genuine insights about India in different fields and I would definitely recommend to give it a read.
August 26, 2018
Mark has an unique view of India, how it functions and what could be done to ramp the development process. Going page by page, I understood some well known but overlooked stories about India. His writing at any point discuss pre and post independent India. Such holistic approach of writing is totally unbiased and really worth reading.
February 25, 2019
A very interesting look at how the legacy of the caste system interacts with modern Indian politics to create today's India. Definitely relies heavily on anecdotal accounts but still very informative for someone mostly unfamiliar with India's politics and culture.
July 24, 2017
Felt elated to traverse through the upheavels of the country during the last 25 years (mostly). Felt ashamed as an Indian to get to know an English man who has been more of an Indian than a Billion.
A raconteur at his narrative best; thats Mark Tully in Non Stop India.
A raconteur at his narrative best; thats Mark Tully in Non Stop India.
September 16, 2017
I am getting a little tired of reading similar books by people from outside India. Offers nothing new or maybe I expected a lot more from an writer of such stance. However, it is well written and Mark Tully always has the ability to keep you turning pages. Definitely worth a read.
January 25, 2014
Today, India is being regarded as a major twenty-first century economy and is touted to be an economic superpower in the future. But still numerous problems and issues plague the country and questions on growth stability and sustainability persist. Terrorism, corruption, casteism, religious riots, crimes against women and environmental degradation are only some of the pressing problems that the country grapples with. What can India do to address these concerns and ensure equitable and inclusive development?
‘Non Stop India’ is essentially a collection of essays which explore the prevailing social and economic conditions of the country. Each of the essays deals with a pressing subject, an area of concern that is pulling the country down and negatively impacting the country’s growth. We are virtually taken on a tour throughout the country and given an understanding into the issues of naxalism, oppression of Dailts, the politics of vote banks, the religious fault lines, the decline of the agricultural economy, political and bureaucratic corruption, the endangerment of the tiger and the neglect of the North-East. The book also looks at the encouraging signs of change slowly coming in – budding entrepreneurship, the work of NGOs in community building, micro finance and economic empowerment of the marginalized section of the society.
Mark Tully is fondly regarded as the ‘best loved Englishman’ in India. Being a BBC reporter based out of New Delhi for over 30 years, he has travelled the length and breadth if the country and his knowledge and awareness about the country is probably better than most Indians. In this book, Tully presents the readers with detailed stories about myriad topics concerning India, with the author’s non-opinionated writing style standing out. He goes and interacts with people all over the country ranging from the CEO of a multi-national company to oppressed Dailts. As a result, we get an interesting insight into the views and opinions of the direct stakeholders and not just armchair analysis. However, this is also my main grouse with the book. A book such as this should ideally be a combination of stories and insights, maintaining a balance between narration and analysis. The book falls short of providing any real analysis, let alone possible solutions. Tully concludes with simplistic statements like ‘If corruption is stopped and infrastructure is improved, India will develop’, which do not add any real value.
There are some really interesting essays in the book which can be read in isolation. Still, the whole doesn’t quite add up to the sum of its parts.
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‘Non Stop India’ is essentially a collection of essays which explore the prevailing social and economic conditions of the country. Each of the essays deals with a pressing subject, an area of concern that is pulling the country down and negatively impacting the country’s growth. We are virtually taken on a tour throughout the country and given an understanding into the issues of naxalism, oppression of Dailts, the politics of vote banks, the religious fault lines, the decline of the agricultural economy, political and bureaucratic corruption, the endangerment of the tiger and the neglect of the North-East. The book also looks at the encouraging signs of change slowly coming in – budding entrepreneurship, the work of NGOs in community building, micro finance and economic empowerment of the marginalized section of the society.
Mark Tully is fondly regarded as the ‘best loved Englishman’ in India. Being a BBC reporter based out of New Delhi for over 30 years, he has travelled the length and breadth if the country and his knowledge and awareness about the country is probably better than most Indians. In this book, Tully presents the readers with detailed stories about myriad topics concerning India, with the author’s non-opinionated writing style standing out. He goes and interacts with people all over the country ranging from the CEO of a multi-national company to oppressed Dailts. As a result, we get an interesting insight into the views and opinions of the direct stakeholders and not just armchair analysis. However, this is also my main grouse with the book. A book such as this should ideally be a combination of stories and insights, maintaining a balance between narration and analysis. The book falls short of providing any real analysis, let alone possible solutions. Tully concludes with simplistic statements like ‘If corruption is stopped and infrastructure is improved, India will develop’, which do not add any real value.
There are some really interesting essays in the book which can be read in isolation. Still, the whole doesn’t quite add up to the sum of its parts.
Read the review in my blog:
http://therovingeyeblogs.wordpress.co...
May 24, 2015
Non-Stop India takes the reader on a broad and well-researched tour of India’s recent development, while revisiting its history, led by one of the only outsiders trusted to report on India with a balance of accuracy and compassion, Mark Tully. Tully, born in Calcutta, was Bureau Chief of BBC New Delhi for over two decades and has lived most of his life in India. His venerability has earned him respect and access, while his journalistic tenacity saves him from pulling any punches and his accessible writing style blends facts with scenery, context, and the views of myriad Indians with ease. The breadth of the book is impressive, as is its organization, which only become apparent a few chapters in when the reader realizes she's being spirited on a journey of topics which Tully has artfully connected not necessarily in time but rather in relevance and relationship. From communism to caste to community development, business to farming to environmental conservation, Non-Stop India is an informative and immensely readable window into an endlessly complex country.
August 27, 2012
The book is by Mark Tully. What more! He takes us through 10 crucial topics related to India and explains to us with a neat clarity. Be it the untouchablity issue or the Project Tiger, the explanation is neat and comprehensible. He has been the Indian correspondent for BBC for more than 30 years, no wonder he gives an insightful account of every issue. For every person who aspires to be a journalist, they must read this book. They will know the importance of sources and research. I strongly recommend this book to those who take interest in Indian affairs.
August 29, 2014
A sympathetic but by no means a uncritical look at the state of the nation a few years back and the number of faultlines that can become a break on progress, development and even social and communal amity. Sir Mark is a old India hand and his assessment of the situation is unparalleled but he most wisely lets his interlocutors suggest the solution or the way ahead, which makes the work a key text in analysing the contours of perception, and thought to the issues of contemporary India.
July 29, 2012
It's a good read. Mark Tully's essays on caste, Naxals, License Permit Raj are quite insightful. The red-tape, the nepotism, bureaucratic corruption associated with setting up Tata Motors is most disheartening.
Mark Tully touches the right areas which when improved will make India "Non Stop India". An engaging read.
Mark Tully touches the right areas which when improved will make India "Non Stop India". An engaging read.
October 6, 2014
Well..this book provides insight into loads of issues ranging from naxalite movements to active NGO, Entrepreneurship and lots more. Since Mark Tully worked as an Indian correspondent for BBC it is basically first hand experience. The interviews he covered in this book provides some real behind the scene pictures. This book is really a masterpiece.
September 3, 2012
doesn't really match up to the author's reputation. The most disconcerting fact, however, is that it has at least one factual mistake in it. Once that happens, you start to question the credibility of what the book is saying...
July 15, 2014
Mark Tully is not opinionated at all. For 300 pages, he lets a variety of colourful characters (ranging from the CEO of TCS to a tiger hunter of Baheliya community) do the talking.Reportage on India has always been Tully's forte and it shows in this vibrant book too.
December 9, 2014
Fantastic book. I am great fan of Mark Tully. He provides positive/hopeful and constructive conclusions to all those 10 issues discussed as long essays in this book. I will recommend this to everyone in my circle.
Thanks, Mark.
Thanks, Mark.
February 19, 2015
Non stop India is a wonderful account about India. it provides a highlighting outlook about India and various problem which hunts India for years. It analyses the problem and it's extend in Indian society. it deals well in terms of social and ecological problem of the country.
February 13, 2019
A book that captures the diverse problems that we Indians face is explored by Tully. Some solutions are proposed but the impact of corruption is a constant under theme in the book.
Readers please note: This book is also sold under the title "India: The Road Ahead"
Readers please note: This book is also sold under the title "India: The Road Ahead"
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February 22, 2012nice rambling thoughts on India. Your travel companion.
August 19, 2014
Very interesting perspective. Good collection of essays. Enjoyed despite disagreeing with some inferences
May 12, 2012
Very good observation of india and more of posite aspects of india
February 14, 2013
As a journalist Mark Tully re-visits the issues that are long pending in India: http://www.anureviews.com/non-stop-in...
April 30, 2013
Brilliant! :)
February 4, 2014
Except the language,was a good reading experience.Well expressed and good examples used to make the point
November 1, 2012
Good Book.An Englishman in Indian Clothing.
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