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by Prafull Goradia

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  • PublisherPrints Publications Pvt Ltd
  • ISBN-139789394791060
  • BindingPaper back
  • Pages207
  • LanguageEnglish
  • Published2023

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Publisher Prints Publications Pvt Ltd
Publication Year 2023
ISBN-13 9789394791060
E-ISBN 9789394791091
Binding Paper back
Number of Pages 207 Pages
Language English
Edition 1st
Dimension (Inches) 5.5"x8.5"
Weight (Grams) 286
Subject Social Science
Category Social Science

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.

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Particulars

Page

1

On Bangladesh

1-4

2

Cricket and Pakistan

5-10

3

Deceptive Religious Conversions

11-13

4

India vs Pakistan

14-17

5

Labour Free Market

18-20

6

Gandhi’s Offer to Jinnah or Gandhi Offers Primeministership to Jinnah

21-23

7

China’s Setback, India’s Advantage in Taiwan

24-26

8

Hinduism, Hindudom and Hindutva

27-29

9

Why fewer Muslim Leaders?

30-32

10

Thank Salman Khurshid For Explaining Congress Ideology

33-35

11

Uniform Civil Code 

36-38

12

Indo-Pak Clashes Are Civil, Not International Wars

39-41

13

Advocate Jinnah

42-45

14

Salman Khurshid and his Equivocalism

46-48

15

Who Really is Murdering Democracy?

49-51

16

What is Fascism?

52-55

17

Worship of Women

56-58

18

Persona and Parties Matter, not Alliances

59-61

19

Ambedkar’s Constitution, an Adaptation of 1935 Act

62-64

20

English Language and Dress Becoming World Style

65-69

21

The Challenge of Mathura

68-70

22

Why a Joint Chief of Defence

71-73

23

Secularism

74-76

24

Biden’s Summit

77-89

25

The Ummah at a Crossroads

80-82

26

Inequality

83-85

27

Why Tollywood Languishes?

86-88

28

Emphasis on the Offensive and Neglect of Defence

89-91

29

On China

92-94

30

Marriageable Age of Women

95-97

31

Taiwan’s Democracy: Threat to China’s Dictatorship

98-101

32

Constitution Not Panacea; Need Review

102-104

33

Cricket Needs Mindset Revolution

105-107

34

National Integrity Cohesive People

108-111

35

The Need to Indianize the Judiciary

112-115

36

What is Happening in Kazakhstan?

116-119

37

Tirumurti’s Statement at UN

120-122

38

Netaji Won Freedom Finally, Not Congress

123-125

39

Judiciary and Independence

126-128

30

Why Buddhadeb Refused?

129-131

41

On the IAS

132-135

42

Netaji

136-138

43

Civic Versus Cultural Nationalism

139-141

44

On Hijab and Choice

142-144

45

Uniform Civil Code

145-147

46

The New Avenue of Employment

148-150

47

Why the Jan Sangh did not take off till recently?

151-153

48

Goa and Uniform Civil Code

154-157

49

Revolution in India

158-160

50

America and Alliances

161-163

51

Putin, Russia and Territory

164-166

52

Arif Rejects Majority-Minority

167-169

53

Looking back at Indo-Russian Trade

170-172

54

On Hijab and Secularism

173-175

55

Will BJP Reforge its Programmes?

176-178

56

What Birbhum Reveals?

179-181

57

Pakistan Today

182-185

58

Sardar Patel and Kashmir

186-189

59

Worship Complex at Mehrauli

190-192

60

Sri Lankan Opposition Wants Parliamentary, Not Presidential System

193-195

61

An Aircraft Repairing a Car

196-198

62

The Judiciary’s Angst

199-201

63

The Sri Lankan Chaos

202-204

64

Rape and Marital Rape

205-207

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