India, March 22 -- 'Eminent Distorians' rebels against the trick mirror view of history where the colonial agenda sets its course.

NEW DELHI: The novelist Robert Louis Stevenson said, "I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in." Utpal Kumar has done better. He has an enormous appetite for books, name any and he has already read it. It is not just a matter of turning pages, he is also blessed with a phenomenal memory. And it shows in his writing, be it in his columns or in the books that he has written.a

His latest, "Eminent Distorians" follows this pattern. It is a remarkable work of scholarship that is elegantly styled to appeal to the general reader and the expert. All through he is conscious of the charge tha...