Ashok Parthasarathi
I am reading Amritsar: Mrs Gandhi's Last Battle by Mark Tully and Satish Jacob, and a biography, Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China by Ezra F. Vogel.
A book on remembering GP [G. Parthasarathi] on his birth centenary has gone to press and I am waiting for its publication.
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I am also going through the old notes of GP.
Ashok Parthasarathi was the scientific adviser to Prime Minister Indira Gandhi
Ramesh Sharma
I have been reading a variety of books on my Kindle, and the one I really enjoyed was about The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared , a work of fiction by Swedish author Jonas Jonasson. I found it clever and witty and an apt commentary on the contemporary world as it talked to me about the adventures of a centurion on the run after he escapes from an old-age home. You gradually discover that he was behind the atomic bomb. The other book I liked, partly because there is a chapter on my film, New Delhi Times , is Shashi Kapoor: The Householder, the Star by Aseem Chhabra. It is about a commercial actor who went on to support the cause of serious, meaningful cinema.
Ramesh Sharma is a Delhi-based filmmaker