Penguin Book of Indian Railway Bond Ruskin & The Emergency (PB): A Personal History Coomi Kapoor (Set of 2 books)

This combo product is bundled in India but the publishing origin of this title may vary.Publication date of this bundle is the creation date of this bundle; the actual publication date of child items may vary.The stories in this collection capture the essence of the Indian Railways-from the small-town station at the time of the Raj to the present day big-city station bursting at the seams. The teeing and varied life of the Indian Railway station and its environs have fascinated writers from Jules Verne in the 1870s to more recently Satyajit Ray R.K. Laxman and more modern writers. In this anthology one of India's best-known writers makes a selection of greatest railway stories the subcontinent has produced. About the Author Ruskin Bond's first novel The Room on the Roof written when he was seventeen won the John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize in 1957. Since then he has written several novels (including Vagrants in the Valley A Flight of Pigeons and Delhi Is Not Far) essays poems and children's books many of which have been published by Penguin India.He has also written over 500 short stories and articles that have appeared in a number of magazines and anthologies. He received the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1993 and the Padma Shri in 1999.A searing indictment of the suspension of democracy In June 1975 a state of Emergency was declared where civil liberties were suspended and the press muzzled. In the dark days that followed Coomi Kapoor then a young journalist personally experienced the full fury of the establishment. Meanwhile Indira Gandhi her son Sanjay and his coterie unleashed a reign of terror that saw forced sterilizations brutal evictions in the thousands and wanton imprisonment of many including Opposition leaders. This gripping eyewitness account vividly recreates the drama the horror as well as the heroism of a few during those nineteen months when democracy was derailed. About the Author Coomi Kapoor has been a political journalist for more than four decades and is currently consulting editor at the Indian Express where her popular column Inside Track appears on Sundays.