Biography presents word-portraits of a range of fascinating or forgotten individuals in India and beyond.
TWO BROWN SAHIBS
The Hindu
In the days when V. S. Naipaul could still bring himself to praise somebody else, he wrote of C. L. R. James’s Beyond a Boundary that it gave ‘a base and solidity to West Indian literary endeavour’. James’s opus, he remarked, was ‘one of the finest and most finished books to come out of the West [...]