THE UNKNOWN WORLD
EAST OF HOME, by Santha Ramia Rau; Victor Gollancz. English price, 16/. ANTHA RAU belongs to one of the ruling families of Congress India. In this light and graceful book she describes her postwar visits to Japan (where her father was Indian Ambassador), and her: strange journey with two Americans, a girl journalist and a male student of the theatre, to China, IndoChina, Siam and finally Bali-where they spent many months. The book ‘s a tantalising mixture of the superficial and the profound. Although they went into the interior specially to see Rewi Alley’s work at Sandan, the account of this could hardly be more scanty and perfunctory. On the other hand, Santha is continually illustrating with vivid insight and charming humour the attitudes of intelligent orientals to the west. Asia is united in its disillusionment with the conceited European, and the Japanese, even in defeat, are the heroes of rising Asian nationalism. But the descriptions of dance and drama in all these countries and of domestic manners are its main, and very considerable, virtues.
David
Hall
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 658, 15 February 1952, Page 14
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180THE UNKNOWN WORLD New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 658, 15 February 1952, Page 14
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