More of the same, in more than one way, as the Malicious Gossip before this, with some new parts. There is a part with description of places and there are reviews in another one.
Khushwant reviews Nirad Chaudhary's book in one piece, for example, abusing Hinduism and India generally, with a lazy glee. Lazy because he gives excerpts and little if anything else. Glee is obvious in how very copiously he quotes the abusive, negative, and so forth.
Both of these guys being completely ignorant of their nation of origin, and dismissive of most of anything not taught in their curriculum designed by Macaulay's program to manufacture brown sahibs that would smash India to bits without Brits having to do it, pretty much like the Madras corps used to defeat Indian freedom fighters and Indian soldiers and policemen to subdue Asia so that pretty much all Asia hated Indians, this piece offers anything new only in that these two should be quite so thoroughly ignorant of nation of their origin and culture thereof, but then again this simply means that the two of them either ignored their own roots or disparaged them at heart, preferring to follow the paleface (as natives of another continent called them) invaders. Most Indian know better.
One clue to this author is in another piece where he describes Syria generally and Damascus to begin with. He takes care to point at the locals looking very like Europeans, being quite specific about their golden hair and light skins and so forth. This is very typical of his own origin of deep in region now in Pakistan and bringing up surrounded mostly by Muslim local neighbours, which inculcated values in him more of Muslim than Indian original culture.
Still, there are some interesting bits, from his sheer accessibility to hoi polloi, not because they are interesting by themselves or their inaccessibility makes them so, but because often connections emerge that one was unaware of.
And more than anything else these pieces are strong evidence of how women are maligned generally for no reason other than that they are women and convenient to attack - this guy gossips, and how!
