Studies in Social Protest

Sham Lal born in 1912 took a master's degree in English Literature in 1933. He joined the Hindustan Times in 1934 and moved to The Times of India early in 1950, took over as its editor in 1967 and retired in 1978. For the last several years, he has been writing regularly for The Telegraph and occasionally for Biblio: A Review of Books, a literary journal. Soon after he was transferred to the main edition of the paper in Bombay, he began writing a weekly literary column under the general heading 'Life and Letters'. This column was the first to introduce many Indian readers to scores of writers and thinkers who left their mark on post-war literature and social thought.