The Heart of India

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Born in Calcutta, educated in England, for more than twenty years Mark Tully was the BBC Chief of Bureau in Delhi and his name and his voice became synonymous with the country he had made his home. For years he sent back dispatches interpreting that subcontinent to the outside world, but the 'truth' of India is remarkably resistant to reportage.
Imbued with his love for India and informed by his vast experience of India, Mark Tully has woven together a series of stories of extraordinaiy depth and eloquence. All the stories are set in Uttar Pradesh and teil of very different lives. Of a barren wife who visits a holy man and subsequently conceives — but is it a miracle or something more worldly? Of a son s carefully laid plot to take revenge against his father s murderer, with a surprising twist when his case comes to court. Of a daughter, persuaded by her friends to spurn an arranged marriage, whose romance ends in blackmail. Of a mans inability to o ver come the conventions of... Tovább

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Born in Calcutta, educated in England, for more than twenty years Mark Tully was the BBC Chief of Bureau in Delhi and his name and his voice became synonymous with the country he had made his home. For years he sent back dispatches interpreting that subcontinent to the outside world, but the 'truth' of India is remarkably resistant to reportage.
Imbued with his love for India and informed by his vast experience of India, Mark Tully has woven together a series of stories of extraordinaiy depth and eloquence. All the stories are set in Uttar Pradesh and teil of very different lives. Of a barren wife who visits a holy man and subsequently conceives — but is it a miracle or something more worldly? Of a son s carefully laid plot to take revenge against his father s murderer, with a surprising twist when his case comes to court. Of a daughter, persuaded by her friends to spurn an arranged marriage, whose romance ends in blackmail. Of a mans inability to o ver come the conventions of caste and go into business, which leads to his wife breaking purdah and taking control of the family.
In these and in other stories Mark Tully delicately probes the nuances of life in India, taking us to its very heart.
'In everything he writes, Tully s sympathy for and knowledge of India shines through he is, indeed, incomparable among foreign observers of that bewildering, maddening, utterly enchanting medley of peoples' — Geoffrey Moorhouse in the Guardian Vissza