SOURCE: A review of Conversations in Bloomsbury, in World Literature Today, Vol. 57, No. 2, Spring, 1983, p. 348.

Below, Asnani comments favorably on Conversations in Bloomsbury.

Mulk Raj Anand is a multidimensional phenomenon on the contemporary Indian literary scene. Besides being a major Indian novelist, he is well known as a founder of Marg, a professor of art and literature, a maker of short films and the author of the pioneering book The Hindu View of Art (1933) as well as works on a wide variety of subjects such as art, painting, education, theatre, criticism, poetry, Indian cuisine, female beauty and Indian culture and civilization. Though Anand turned seventy-seven last December, with his characteristic energy he is actively engaged in the task of reconstructing a new India as cultural adviser to the Prime Minister and as the moving spirit behind several national and international cultural associations, university seminars and conferences. These days...