India in Mind

Author: Pankaj MishraEditor(s): Pankaj MishraPublisher: Picador IndiaYear: 2005Language: EnglishPages: 335ISBN/UPC (if available): 0330439529 DescriptionAfter more than fifty years of modernization, India is far from being made over in the image of a western country. It often poses hard challenges. The reaction it evokes are complex, ranging from awe and wonder to repulsion and rejection.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 form fiction and non-fiction to poetry, lighting up a thousand forgotten details about the last hundred and fifty years of a changing India. They reveal as much about the authors and their times as, with intuition and intelligence, about this vast country and its people.Edited and introduced by Pankaj Mishra, one of the finest writers today, India in Mind includes all-time favourites as well as lesser-known treasures. J R Ackerley a