India in Mind

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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 HolidayNotes Mailed at NagercoilShamdev: The wolf boyFrom Dessert placesFrom Abinger Harvestfrom Indian JournalsFrom childhood of the Magicianfrom AbandonTwo more under the Indian sunFrom Kimfrom Tristes Tropiquesfrom Anti Memoriesfrom the snow Leopardfrom a writers Notebookfrom portrait of IndiaMrs. Gupta never rangfrom an area of DarknessShooting an Elephantfrom the Scent of Indiafrom A tale of two gardensfrom Blindfold gamesfrom the jewel in the crownfrom the great railway bazaarfrom following the equatorfrom creation