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Hari Anand Barari
Mr. H.A. Barari, the author hails from a rural outback of what later became Bangladesh. An alumnus of the famous Presidency College, Kolkata, he earned many academic laurels and taught Economics at a Kolkata College in 1952. He briefly switched over to a career in the prestigiois Imperial Bank of India before finding his metier in the Indian Police Service. He ended up as the country's topmost police officer when he became the head of Intelligence Bureau (1984-1987) in the aftermath of the assassination of Prime Minister Indira gandhi. After retirement, he emerged out of the shadowy world of intelligence to become the governor of Haryana (1988-1990). In between, he had doubled as the Governor of Himachal Pradesh for a brief while. Very recently he has written a book named "In Sun and Shower", a pot-pourri of the author's distant memories, this book focuses on his early life at his native place Vikrampur in pre-partition East Bengal, now Bangladesh. The author showcases the pristine glory of vikrampur, which in more recent times has been the home of many illustrious sons of Bengal. Besides being a deep study of the history and the cultural and spiritual traditions of that place, the book also highlights some of the less known facets of the local socio-cultural scene to make sure that these do not get obliterated for ever from our collective memory. The authors disagreement with some of the points made in the nobal laureate Amartya Sen analysis of the Bengal Famine (1943) should attract notice in academic circles Book Review
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Sun and Shower A pot-pourri of the author's distant memories, this book focuses on his early life at his native place Vikrampur in pre-partition East Bengal, now Bangladesh. The author showcases the pristine glory of vikrampur, which in more recent times has been the home of many illustrious sons of Bengal. Besides being a deep study of the history and the cultural and spiritual traditions of that place, the book also highlights some of the less known facets of the local socio-cultural scene to make sure that these do not get obliterated for ever from our collective memory. The authors disagreement with some of the points made in the nobal laureate Amartya Sen analysis of the Bengal Famine (1943) should attract notice in academic circles. Distributor
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