LANGUAGE IN INDIA

Strength for Today and Bright Hope for Tomorrow

Volume 16:8 August 2016
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
Editors: B. Mallikarjun, Ph.D.
         Sam Mohanlal, Ph.D.
         B. A. Sharada, Ph.D.
         A. R. Fatihi, Ph.D.
         Lakhan Gusain, Ph.D.
         Jennifer Marie Bayer, Ph.D.
         G. Baskaran, Ph.D.
         L. Ramamoorthy, Ph.D.
         C. Subburaman, Ph.D. (Economics)
         N. Nadaraja Pillai, Ph.D.
         Renuga Devi, Ph.D.
         Soibam Rebika Devi, M.Sc., Ph.D.
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Daughter of a Diplomat
by Shanthy Pragalsingh

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M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.


This is a fascinating book, well written with passion and knowledge and understanding. Shanthy Pragalsingh writes about her personal life and experience as the daughter of a diplomat. The book gives us interesting and useful insights about Indian history and values, through the eyes of a young girl/woman who had many opportunities to speak to and listen to and observe many leading historical figures of modern Indian history after independence.

The role of a diplomat is hard and ambivalent even as it is exciting because a diplomat is in part a carrier of historical events. He or she initiates as well as participates in creating history. Sometimes diplomats succeed in achieving the goals set before them, but often, especially in Indian circumstances of non-aligned status and movement, their role is to explain and convince other nations about the position taken by India for the good of India as well as the world. Overseas Indian issues always formed part of their concerns and assigned duties. Shanthy’s father had been in the thick of conflicts all over the world. Shanthy had been with her family and had opportunities to see the world and its leaders.

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