
How can we understand India today, fifty years after Independence and only months after its nuclear tests outraged the world? The novelist Arundhati Roy has written, specially for this collection, a fierce denunciation of the Indian nuclear program, which serves as an introduction to nine essays on India, all originally published in The New York Review of Books. In this volume, seven distinguished...
Paperback: 288 pages
Publisher: New York Review Books (September 9, 2001)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0940322943
ISBN-13: 978-0940322943
Product Dimensions: 5.1 x 0.8 x 7.5 inches
Amazon Rank: 6514559
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The contributors to the book all consider themselves to be leftists. The Indian contributors are all Westernized and many live in the West. They have a long history of being unremittingly critical of Indian culture and traditions. One of the contri...
fer penetrating insights into the complexities of the subcontinent. Roderick MacFarquhar reflects on the legacy of Empire and Partition, Ian Buruma considers secularism and Indian democracy, Pankaj Mishra remembers life in Benares, and Christopher de Bellaigue writes on a violent Bombay. But the volatile intersections of history, politics, and culture on which they focus haunt Indian literature too, as shown in essays by Nobel Prize-winner Amartya Sen on Rabindranath Tagore, Hilary Mantel on Rohinton Mistry, and Anita Desai on Indian women's writing.