Dehradun, Jan. 31 -- Book Review - 1

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"A Man for All Seasons: The Life of KM Panikkar"

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I seek the indulgence of my readers for an extended two-part review of about 2500 words for this well-researched hefty volume of close to nine hundred pages.

KM Panikkar could not asked for a better Ben Johnson to document his life - for Narayani Basu has dug into such details that even KMP may have forgotten in the very rich, eventful and variegated life from 1894 to 1963: a period which saw him move from the backwaters to Travancore to a salient role in India's foreign and domestic policy as our first ambassador to China and a key member of the SRC which marked the beginning of reshaping the internal boundaries of independent India.

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