Subtle subversions

The book went into four editions. It was marketed as a children's book

Every now and then everyone comes across books about strikingly different themes. This happened to me last month when I borrowed a book called The Audacious Raconteur by an academic called Leela Prasad. The back flap merely says she is a professor of ethics and religious studies at Duke University in the US.

She has produced a very thoughtful collection of four papers on a subject that few have bothered to think about, namely, while a conqueror can subjugate your minds, as the British did with us, some people just refused to give in, or up.

Thus, I remember an article in