Dehradun, April 26 -- Book Review

History that India Ignored

The founder and chair of the multimedia news agency ANI, nonagenarian Prem Prakash, is perhaps India's oldest working journalist and observer of contemporary affairs. He was present at Tashkent when Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri signed the Kosygin brokered peace treaty with Ayub Khan. He was absolutely prompt in responding to my request to write a few lines of endorsement for my book on Shastri under the title 'The Great Conciliator'.

I was therefore delighted to receive a review copy of his seminal work 'History that India Ignored' published by Vitasta. As the book covers a very wide span of history - from the attacks of Darius in 536 BCE, and that of Alexander almost t...