June 16, 2010 The celebrated author, Manohar Malgonkar who passed away Monday night in the remote village of Jabalpet in Joida, Uttara Kannada district [Karnataka state] was an imposing personality and lived a regal life, said Wg Cdr (retd), Cecil Barreto, a close friend of the writer. "He lived like a true Anglophile," he added. (snip) http://www.navhindtimes.in/news/manohar-malgonkar-lived-regal-life-barreto Manohar Malgonkar was 97. Apart from history, the army and communal politics during Partition, Malgonkar wrote of human relationships. As an author, he was a stark chronicler and was often criticised for his positive characterisation of the British. (snip) http://beta.thehindu.com/news/article458307.ece Malgonkar's contribution to Indian Writing in English remains largely unacknowledged DNA Thursday, June 17, 2010 Bangalore: As a contemporary of writers such as Mulk Raj Anand, Khushwant Singh and Kamala Markandya, it is a fact that Manohar Malgonkar's contribution to the genre we refer to today as Indian Writing in English (IWE) remains largely unacknowledged. Yet, this prolific writer of novels, short stories and essays, who passed his last days in a bucolic village near the Goa-Karnataka border, was one of the last of a generation that has living memories of events that changed our nation's history and society in the most profound ways. As the author of the novels A Bend in the Ganges, which traces the lives of three characters in the violent aftermath of Partition, or Distant Drum (his first novel, published in 1960), an eye-opening account of life in the Indian Army during the days of the Raj, Malgonkar's contribution to the IWE canon is seminal and salutary. History obsessed Malgonkar. (snip) http://www.dnaindia.com/lifestyle/report_manohar-malgonkar-contributiion-to-indian-writing-in-english-remains-largely-unacknowledged_1397472 --- Harshawardhan_Bosham Nimkhedkar