However, what I got was predominantly a linear history of Indian sub-continent. I was under the assumption, that I would learn historical aspects of India's geography, and geography not only about the Gangetic plain, but about other landscapes, rivers, coasts, etc. I have several issues with the book, few I lay below -įirstly, the name is little misleading.
Hence, I read this book to see what Sanyal wants the children of today should know about their civilization. Sanjeev Sanyal falls in to that category. As a reader, who is neither interested nor capable of a thorough investigation of history, I believe I need to know other side of the stories, especially the writers I believe are worth reading. Well, if History is written always by winners, it is also re-written by winners NOW as well. With the winds and regime changing, we see a lot of intellectuals from the right side of the isle coming fore and present an alternative narrative, which they believe is re-writing the wrongs of the past. The community of Indian intellectuals have been accused of being dominated by left liberals. Until the Lion Learns to Write, Every Story Will Glorify the Hunter. These travels resulted in The Ocean of Churn: How the Indian Ocean Shaped Human History.Ĭurrently Sanjeev lives in New Delhi where he serves as the principal economic adviser to the Indian government. He also spent the next few years exploring the Indian Ocean rim-Oman, Sri Lanka, Zanzibar, Vietnam, Indonesia, and up and down India’s coastline. Then in 2011, again for no particular reason, he went back to finance and took up a role as the global strategist of one of the world’s largest banks. This resulted in his hugely popular second book, Land of the Seven Rivers. One day in 2008, mostly on a whim, he decided to move back to India and travel all over the country with his family. Sanjeev spent most of his adult life battling international financial markets, a few years in Mumbai and many in Singapore. These experiences made him a keen observer of rapidly changing societies, an interest that reflects in many of his varied writings.
He spent the tumultuous summer of 1993 in South Africa as it transitioned from apartheid, and then extensively travelled through Guatemala as it emerged from civil war. He grew up in Sikkim, Kolkata and Delhi before heading off to Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar. Sanjeev Sanyal is an economist, urban theorist and writer.
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