India In Mind

After more than fifty years of modernisation, India is far from being made over in the image of a western country... It often poses hard challenges. The reactions it evokes are complex, ranging from awe and wonder to repulsion and rejections. India in Mind is a stunning collection of the diverse and vivid reactions that the subcontinent has evoked in the greatest writers of our time. Its twenty five pieces range from fiction and non fiction to poetry, lighting up a thousand forgotten details about the last hundred and fifty years of a changing India.
About Author :
Edited and introduced by Pankaj Mishra, one of the finest writers today, India in Mind includes all time favourties as well as lesser known treasures. J R Ackerley attempting to learn Hindi Allen ginsberg immersing himself in Benares; V S Naipaul searching for the India of his imagination this brilliant collection is for all those who find India endlessly fascinating as well as for those who enjoy exquisite writing.
Contents :
From Hindoo Holiday Notes Mailed at Nagercoil Shamdev: The wolf boy From Dessert places From Abinger Harvest from Indian Journals From childhood of the Magician from Abandon Two more under the Indian sun From Kim from Tristes Tropiques from Anti Memories from the snow Leopard from a writers Notebook from portrait of India Mrs. Gupta never rang from an area of Darkness Shooting an Elephant from the Scent of India from A tale of two gardens from Blindfold games from the jewel in the crown from the great railway bazaar from following the equator from creation