The Dismantling of India: In 35 Portraits (HB)
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Author: T J S George
9789392099151 | HB | pp. 400 | 2022 | Simon
In The Dismantling of India: In 35 Portraits T J S George uses his vast experience as a journalist and editor to tell the story of India beginning with Jamsetji Tata.
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In The Dismantling of India: In 35 Portraits T J S George uses his vast experience as a journalist and editor to tell the story of India beginning with Jamsetji Tata.
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In October 1947, two months after Independence, TJS George arrived in Bombay. He was nineteen years old, with a degree in English Literature. He sent out job applications––to the Air Force and to the city’s English-language newspapers. Only one organization cared to reply, The Free Press Journal. The editor was known to hire anyone who asked for a job, but most new hires were sacked in a fortnight. George was put on the news desk as a sub-editor and eventually became an assistant editor. In Patna, as editor of The Searchlight, he was arrested by the chief minister for sedition. He spent three weeks in Hazaribagh Central Jail. In Hong Kong, he worked for the Far Eastern Economic Review as regional editor; in New York he was a writer for the United Nations population division; and, back in Hong Kong, in 1975, he founded Asiaweek. Six years later, he returned to India and settled in Bangalore. He began a column for Indian Express that ran without a break for twenty-five years, until 2022. His seventy-five years of journalism, concurrent with India’s development as an independent nation, make for a unique understanding of events and personalities. Acclaimed for his widely historical, pan-Asian vision, George brings this far-flung experience to a compulsively readable new book, The Dismantling of India. It is the story of India told in 35 concise biographies, beginning with Jamsetji Tata and ending with Narendra Modi.
| Author: | T J S George |
|---|---|
| ISBN: | 9789392099151 |
| Binding: | Hardback |
| Pages: | 400 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Publisher: | Simon |
| Edition: | First |
| Condition: | New |
| Country of Origin: | India |
About the Author
The author is a journalist who began his career at the Free Press Journal in 1950 and was the founding editor of Asia Week. He established himself as a serious political author and biographer with a series of major books, including Lee Kuan Yew's Singapore, The Life and Times of Nargis and Krishna Menon: A Biography. He lives in Bangalore with his wife, Ammu.
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