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The Heart of India (Paperback)
by Mark Tully (Author)
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Imbued with his love for India, and informed by his experience of India (where he worked for the BBC for over 20 years), Mark Tully has woven together a series of stories set in Uttar Pradesh, which tell of very different lives.

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18 of 22 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Munshi Mark Tully-ji!, 13 Nov 2001
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This book is very contextual but thoroughly enjoyable. However if readers visualise what they read, then this book will appeal either to those Indians, who come from the Hindi heartland in India and are familiar with gifted writers such as Munshi Premchand or to those westerners, who dont just touch the surface of the diversity in India - in short, people like Mark Tully or even Annie Besant.

The stories bear the simplicity and lucidity that characterised Munshi Prem Chand, who the Indian Press once 'accused' Mark Tully of aspiring to be like. They bring out the flavour and the pathos of Uttar Pradesh in a way rarely seen in literature written in the English language.

I recommend this book highly but not to those whose only experience of India is a trip to Goa or chicken tikka masala!

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13 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars Disapponting, 21 Nov 2003
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Unlike "No Full Stops", this book is not a collection of feature-length reports about India. Instead, the journalist Tully tries his hand at becoming the writer Tully, with very limited success. He claims that each story "could have happened in this way", which may be true, but I find them very cliched, and badly written -- a long, atmospheric introduction followed by unbelievable twists towards a quick end, mostly steeped in bloodshed.

Unfortunately, not a patch on "No Full Stops".

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4 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Another excellent Tully book, 21 Aug 2003
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For anyone interested in India during the period before 1990, this is a very interesting read. Like most of Tully's books, it is a series of essays on the pressing subjects in India. Highly recommended.
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