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Nick Robins brings to life the East India Company, Delhi Newsline, 27-Oct-06

Call it a fresh take on history, an effort to draw lessons from the not so glorious past, but the colonial hangover just refuses to fade away. This season, it seems to have resurfaced in literary circles. After William Dalrymple’s The Last Mughal: The Fall of a Dynasty, Delhi, 1857, it’s Nick Robins’ The Corporation that Changed the World: How the East India Company Shaped the Modern Multinational (Orient Longman, Rs 295). >>>

A Life of Our Times, Frontline Oct 21 - Nov 03, 2006

"Came January 30, 1948 when the Mahatma, that supreme apostle of peace, fell to a bullet fired by an RSS fanatic. The whole tragic episode left me sick at heart" (A Life of Our Times by Rajeshwar Dayal; Orient Longman; pages 93-94). It was this very G.B. Pant who deftly avoided removal of idols from the Babri Masjid in December 1949 flouting Nehru's wishes. >>>