The Grammar of Lions and Other Writings

The Grammar of Lions is a panoramic view of historical and cultural development across time and in different locales. The unifying force that runs through these essays is the exposition of creativity of the human society quite often manifested through exceptional individuals. Such moments in the life of a society as the great flourishing of Gandhara civilization seen through the lives of people like Panini and Emperor Kanishka mingling of cultures seen through the lives like Alexander the Great are summarized in their proper perspective. As a broad survey the book focuses on many great but lesser known figures by placing them in their historical context. But the insatiable spirit of human inventiveness is the bond that controls and compresses time in all its expressions of creativity and that is what The Grammar of Lions delineates across time and continents.