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M.P. Prabhakaran
THE AUTHOR M.P. Prabhakaran
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M.P. Prabhakaran Most of his working life, M.P. Prabhakaran straddled two professions, journalism and teaching. He started his career in journalism, in 1969, as a cub reporter on Current, a weekly newspaper (now defunct) published from Bombay (now Mumbai). He then moved on, as a sub-editor, to March of the Nation, another Bombay-based English weekly (also defunct now); and then to Free Press Journal, one of India’s leading English dailies. After immigrating to the U.S. in 1975, he worked as the editor of The Voice of India, a monthly; and, two years later, of South Asia Newsspecial, a news and feature syndicate. Side by side with his journalistic work, he also pursued a Ph.D. in Political Science, at The New School for Social Research, New York. After completing the Ph.D. in 1988, he taught for several years as an adjunct professor of political science, at the City University of New York. Since 2001, Prabhakaran has been traveling extensively and posting his travel experiences on The East-West Inquirer, an online monthly he started that year. The monthly, published at www.eastwestinquirer.com, also carries his social and political commentaries.
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M.P. Prabhakaran
THE BOOK
What I Learned from My Thirty-Day European Odyssey
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What I Learned from My Thirty-Day European Odyssey This is the second book authored by M.P. Prabhakaran on his worldtrotting experiences. In the preface to the first book, An Indian Goes Around the World – I: Capitalism Comes to Mao’s Mausoleum, he describes his passion for travel thus: “I travel, therefore I am – apologies to Descartes for twisting his noble thought.” If academic qualifications are a measure of one’s learning experience, he says in the same preface, he has a string of them. But, he hastens to add, they are no match for what he has learned from his travels around the world. In the preface to this second book, devoted exclusively to the tour he undertook through ten countries of Europe in the summer of 2009, he goes a step further and sums up his experience through a mangled version of poet Shelley’s immortal words: “The more we study, the more we discover our ignorance.” Prabhakaran’s mangled version: “The more I travel, the more I discover my ignorance.”
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