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People & Places

 
S. Nihal Singh (Author)
Synopsis In a golden period in his reporting days in Delhi, S. Nihal Singh was assigned the task of finding and interviewing a person, usually a visitor from elsewhere in India or abroad, to give a sketch of his or her interests and aspirations in life.  These people ranged from such celebrities as the actor James Stewart to writers such as Mulk Raj Anand, poets like Edmund Blunden, filmmakers of the caliber of Roberto Rossellini as well as more humble folk who had set out from home on their own quests.

Some of these sketches are of historical interest because of the revelations the author was privileged to interpret, particularly in the case of the great many who have passed on. There was poetry in the lives of some of the lesser mortals as well, of a young man, for instance, dividing his time between selling spring lambs and helicopters; of the lady who sought the solace of the desert to find inspiration for the books she wrote; of the Japanese poetess who tutored the interviewer in the unique Heikai (also known as Haiku) tradition of writing Japanese poetry.

The “Places” in the second section of the book are essentially first impressions of a city or country.  First impressions have a niche of their own, and often a city strikes one in a special way even though one had visited it before.
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About the author

S. Nihal Singh

S. Nihal Singh is a pre-eminent Indian political commentator and editor.  In a career spanning more than 50 years, he was at various times a sub-editor, a staff reporter, parliamentary correspondent, political correspondent, foreign correspondent and editor.  His sojourns abroad have been in Singapore, Islamabad, Moscow, London, New York, Paris and Dubai.  He has edited tow of India’s leading newspapers, The Statesman and the Indian Express, was founding editor of the Indian Post and editor of the Khaleej Times in Dubai.

Among his publications are The Yogi and the Bear: A Story of Indo-Soviet Relations; Indiras India and The Gang and 900 Million: A China Diary.  Nihal Singh received the International Editor of the Year Award in New York in 1978 for his role as editor of the Statesman during the Indian Emergency of the 1970s.

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Bibliographic information

Title People & Places
Format Hardcover
Date published: 09.12.2009
Edition 1st ed.
Language: English
isbn 8182901987, 9788182901988
length viii+219p., 22cm.