tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3759766337265548176.post5882148820493905139..comments2020-09-07T02:50:15.401+05:30Comments on At peace, writing gibberish: The Shadow Lines- Amitav GhoshRavi Kumarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14719174666413173350noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3759766337265548176.post-51775673716193731462016-05-28T20:54:05.246+05:302016-05-28T20:54:05.246+05:30Thank you for your kind words. :) Thank you for your kind words. :) Ravi Kumarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14719174666413173350noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3759766337265548176.post-50812384778331073282016-05-28T20:49:10.859+05:302016-05-28T20:49:10.859+05:30Thank you old chap. Your comment means a lot to me...Thank you old chap. Your comment means a lot to me. Ravi Kumarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14719174666413173350noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3759766337265548176.post-81958772594668423192016-05-27T14:26:21.196+05:302016-05-27T14:26:21.196+05:30This is an excellent review. As a reader this is w...This is an excellent review. As a reader this is what I look forward to in a review. Vanita Bodkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06457580655654060013noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3759766337265548176.post-67899135516266326562016-05-26T19:49:23.770+05:302016-05-26T19:49:23.770+05:30Thank you for the mention. It's also rather su...Thank you for the mention. It's also rather surprising, since I'm reasonably sure my digressions make me a bore rather than anything else.<br /><br />That said, what is Geography but the story or humanity's relationship with the land - an attempt to understand the world we live in? Understanding Geography is understanding why we grow the crops we do, why typhoons happen in Middle America and thunderstorms in the North, why the Niagara Falls are majestic in their grandeur while the Yamuna is indistinguishable from a drainage canal.<br /><br />History - with all it's distortion and the dullness with which it is taught - is the greatest story never told. It's our collective memory, it's the story of the great European conquest of America and the brutal oppression of the Native Americans, it's the story of England's cruel colonisation of the Orient and of how a tiny Island with terrible weather grew to conquer half the world. It's the story of the might of Rome, the resistance of the Goths, the cruelty of India's Hindu kings and the generosity of it's Muslim Emperors, the subjugation and emancipation of people.<br /><br />How can these subjects not be fascinating? The fact that they are, in fact, taught so boringly says more about the lack of quality in our teachers than the content itself.<br /><br />Oh, and great review. But I told you that already.<br />Percy Slackerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12743973968486575362noreply@blogger.com