The Heart of India
By
Mark Tully
In this mid semester break I was too lazy to go through any course book so wanted to get through some miscellaneous text, I found this book by Mark Tully on India, ’the heart of India ’, Mark Tully has worked as correspondent for BBC Radio services in India, before getting retired .He decided to continue his stay in this ‘Utopia Land’(my belief)…because this country is just brilliant.
In this book he has collections of stories that are somewhat morphed in terms of names of characters and minor changes….but most of the content was true to best of his knowledge. Most of the stories were of Eastern part of U.P. the place which Sir Tully considered to be demonstrated real picture of India and to this part of India I belong!!!!
Well reading these stories at first seems good and if not completely, they had truth in greater part and I must say Mr. Tully has more knowledge than me, of part of world, to which I belong.
But none of his stories seemed convincing enough that can compel a foreigner to continue his stay….and no way these stories portrayed ‘heart of India’ . I’m just not satisfied with the title but the stories are marvelous and one must go through this book.
This book has many stories of ‘Thakurs’.In those stories they have been shown degraded of their station which they had been enjoying since Vedic age(very true),this caused raising of my eyebrows for that moment, since I’m thakur(or kshatriya) too…even though I have always favored equality to all..but sudden rise of down trodden was hard to gulp down, while going through text!!!(and those assholes are still demanding for reservation……!!!!! For what I don’t know!!!)
It is all mixed but I wanted to convey 2 things
a)11)The title was not apt
2)Do away with this fucking reservations…….even if the ‘JACKASS PEOPLE ‘ our ’ neta’ still want to go with this…make reservation on economic status…otherwise division in society is inevitable.
