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Succumbing To An Inferior Complexity

Anthony Daniels ANTHILLS OF THE SAVANNAH by Chinua Achebe Heinemann, £10.95 W ole Soyinka once spoke of Chinua Achebe's 'unrelieved competence'. It seemed to me a peculiarly......

The Violence And Drama Of India

Anita Desai KINGDOM'S END AND OTHER STORIES by Saadat Hasan Manto, translated by Khalid Hasan Verso, £11.95 T hose whose idea of India is taken from her art and literature, the......