BOOK REVIEWS 65 ^the whole world is my family." The other familiar figure Ka Naa Sub-ramanyam fails to ahalyze the crucial aspects of the problem, though his asides are provocatively entertaining. He makes a sensible plea for planning a shelf of books which will go to form the basis of a Library of Indian Literature. The trouble with Subramanyam is that he feels him-^self to be ^a normal anti-political, sick-pf-politics human being who happens to have been born in India and cannot migrate even if he wants to"6. Honestly speaking, many intellectuals will share his sense of deprivation; but with such an attitude of frustration and despair why take the trouble of combating divisive tendencies? This particular section is redeemed by Attar Singh who has some valuable and pertinent ideas on the problem. I think that his suggestion of an integrated course in Indian literature in the Indian universities to provide a national cultural perspective deserves to be seriously taken up by teachers of literature. MOHAN THAMPI 1 Aspects of Indian Literature, p 51. a Ibid., p59. 8 Ibid., p 84. ^ Ibid., p 92. < Ibid.,?? 97-98. € Ibid., p 33.