A no nonsense hands-on guidebook for foreign investors in India
This book is useful reading for all board members and CEOs of the many multinationals that look in India’s direction, writes Reginald Massey
In spite of the worldwide credit crunch (a banker’s euphemism for the dreaded word Depression) and its repercussions on India, investors and entrepreneurs in [...]

LONDON BOOK FAIR 2009

Who was it who made the rash ill-advised statement that the age of the printed book was well and truly over? Not at all. The printed book persists and prevails. Deep in his grave Gutenberg must be rolling with delight. Books flourish as never before
Reginald Massey
This year’s London Book Fair focussed on [...]

Ranchan sums up superbly the amazing ability of Ruskin Bond, ‘the old man of the hills’,
says Reginald Massey
BONDING WITH BOND: a psychoanalytic study of the man and the writer, by Som Parkash Ranchan. Chandigarh: Graphit India, info@graphitindia.com. ISBN 81-904236-6-5.HB. 214pp. Indian Rupees 353.00.
Ruskin Bond’s name is virtually unknown outside India even though in the [...]

For one who has led a privileged life Adiga has captured, quite unbelievably, the psyche and thought processes of the Indian underdog, says Reginald Massey
[The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga, New York: Simon and Schuster; London: Atlantic Books. ISBN 9781843547204. HB. 321pp. £12.99]
A great many journalists secretly nurse the ambition of writing a bestseller. Few [...]

This amazing book comes as a breath of fresh air to a critic like me who has spent decades studying subjects pertaining to Indian classical music and dance. Shastriye sangeet and Bharata Natyam have been my interest areas, but since the bhangra genre is part of Punjabi folk culture, I welcome this first book on British bhangra most heartily.

BOOK REVIEW
by Reginald Massey

The title of this book requires some comment. Since Sujata Bhatt and I happen to hail from the same part of the world we have first hand experience of lizards which most Europeans probably do not. There are several kinds of lizard and they are not the most beautiful creatures on earth [...]