The book is a collection of some of the articles published in The East-West Inquirer, an online monthly, over the past two decades.
"Your pen is your biggest enemy." That's the kind of warning the author says he used to receive from his friends, whenever they found an article too provocative. Pointing to the topic of the article, they would add, "Why bother, if it doesn't affect you in any way?"
His response to them was: "The powers that be got away with the atrocious things they did because of that attitude.
The book is M.P. Prabhakaran's way of speaking truth to power.
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Publication Year
2024 March
Number of Pages
290
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Most of his working life, which spans half a century, M.P. Prabhakaran straddled two professions: journalism and teaching. He started his career in journalism as a cub reporter on Current, an English weekly (now defunct) published from Mumbai; and ended as editor and publisher of The East-West Inquirer, an online monthly published from New York. In between he held various editorial positions in various publications.
He started his teaching career as a high school math teacher in his hometown in Kerala, India, and ended as an adjunct professor of political science at the City University of New York. After immigrating to the U.S. in 1975, he also completed a Ph.D. in Political Science at the New School for Social Research, New York.
Prabhakaran has also authored several books. This one is his latest.