K Natwar Singh: Hi-five - My Books of the Year: "Reduction of serious issues to a spectator sport has been, by and large, one of the more malign accomplishments of television. Its virtues are well known, but now it’s in danger of overkill. Fortunately, corrections are visible. One of the editors-in-chief of a well-known weekly ended his editorial by quoting (not naming) British Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin’s observation on the excesses of the print media in 1936: “Power without responsibility is the privilege of the harlot.”
It was feared that television would kill the book. This has not happened. If it had, it would have been a calamity. This year, I read 25 books. Of these I have selected five, for “My Books of the Year”."
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