An Indian Goes Around the World - II - Prabhakaran, M. P.
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This is the second book by M.P. Prabhakaran on his world-trotting experience. The first one, Capitalism Comes to Mao's Mausoleum, was published three years ago. This book is devoted exclusively to the 30-day tour he undertook through 10 countries of Europe in the summer of 2009. If academic qualifications are a measure of one's learning experience, Prabhakaran says in the "Preface" to the fi rst book, he has a string of them, including a Ph.D. in Political Science from The New School for Social Research, New York. "But," he hastens to add, "what I learned from this prestigious American…mehr

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This is the second book by M.P. Prabhakaran on his world-trotting experience. The first one, Capitalism Comes to Mao's Mausoleum, was published three years ago. This book is devoted exclusively to the 30-day tour he undertook through 10 countries of Europe in the summer of 2009. If academic qualifications are a measure of one's learning experience, Prabhakaran says in the "Preface" to the fi rst book, he has a string of them, including a Ph.D. in Political Science from The New School for Social Research, New York. "But," he hastens to add, "what I learned from this prestigious American institution and, before that, from various academic institutions in India is no match for what I did from my travels around the world." In describing what he felt at the end of the 2009 European tour, he goes a step further. "The more I travel," he says, "the more I discover my ignorance." He admits that his description is a mangled version of poet Shelley's immortal words: "The more we study, the more we discover our ignorance." But, he adds, he could not find a better way to express his enlightening experience. The tour of 10 European countries, he says in the "Preface" to this book, opened his mind to various aspects of European cultures he had been quite ignorant of. Through the subsequent pages of the book, he shares with readers the knowledge he gained from conversations with people and from events and objects he got exposed to during that tour.
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M. P. Prabhakaran started his career in journalism, in 1969, as a cub reporter on Current, a weekly newspaper (now defunct) published from Bombay (now known as Mumbai). He then moved on, as a sub-editor (called copy editor in the U.S.), to March of the Nation, another Bombay-based English weekly (also defunct now); and then to Free Press Journal, one of India's leading English dailies. After immigrating to the U.S. in 1975, he worked as the editor of Th e Voice of India, a monthly, and of South Asia Newsspecial, a news and feature syndicate. Side by side with his journalistic work in the U.S., he also pursueda Ph.D. in Political Science, at Th e New School for Social Research, New York. After completing the Ph.D., in 1988, he taught for several years as an adjunct professor, at the City University of New York. Since 2001, Prabhakaran has been traveling extensively and posting his travel experience on Th e East-West Inquirer, an online monthly he started the same year. Th e monthly, published at www.eastwestinquirer.com, also carries his social and political commentaries. Prabhakaran can be reached by email at prabha@eastwestinquirer. com or mprabhakaran@nyc.rr.com.Book Price $10.99