Traffic in light benefits donor and recipient, without the ambiguities that always cling to the traffic in goods. It can link all mankind into a family and can enable the people of any country today to become the inheritors of the legacy left by the peoples of any epoch of any land. There is a great tradition of Arabic learning in this country. But not all Indians have equally benefited from that heritage. The language barrier is, admittedly, formidable. But it is equally formidable in the case of Greek. Nevertheless there is a not inadequate awareness of ancient Greek literature in India and the tragedies of Sophocles and Euripides have been presented on the Indian stage. Our links with the Arabic heritage are closer and yet the general awareness remains sadly inadequate. This book may help towards remedying this unhappy situation. For the layman, original material will continue to remain inaccessible. But the corpus of translated material is large enough. However, some stimulus to explore it is necessary and this book seeks in all humility to provide it. Though it does not want to claim to be anything more than an outline, it seeks to provide a fairly complete frame.

About the Author
Described by national periodicals as 'one of the most original and stimulating minds writing in the subcontinent today' and as 'our nearest approximation to the Renaissance man, versatile in interests and depth of learning', Krishna Chaitanya is the author of over thirty books whose multi-disciplinary range got him the 'Critic of Ideas' award of the Institute of International Education, New York.


Book Information
ISBN 9788119953424
Author Krishna Chaitanya
Format Hardback
Page Count 212
Imprint Manohar Publishers and Distributors
Publisher Manohar Publishers and Distributors