"The Granta Book of India" brings together evocative, personal and informative writings on modern India, drawn from the pages of the world's leading literary magazine. Here are eighteen contemporary voices sketching one of the world's most dynamic places in fiction, reportage and memoir.
Contributors include Suketu Mehta, on Mumbai, a city "with an identity crisis; " Chitrita Banerji, on "What Bengali Widows Cannot Eat"; Pankaj Mishra, on the making of jihadis in Pakistan and Afghanistan; and Rory Stewart, among the dervishes of Pakistan. Ramachandra Guha and Amit Chaudhuri remember cowboys and Indians and the dignity of American labor; Urvashi Butalia traces a family member through the political geography of India's Partition. Hanif Kureishi describes fundamentalist forces in Pakistani politics. And Nirad Chaudhuri writes on his 100th birthday. The collection includes a poem by Salman Rushdie about the fatwa, and fiction by R.K. Narayan, Amit Chaudhuri, and Nell Freudenberger.
"The Granta Book of India" brings together evocative, personal and informative writings on modern India, drawn from the pages of the world's leading literary magazine. Here are eighteen contemporary voices sketching one of the world's most dynamic places in fiction, reportage and memoir.
Contributors include Suketu Mehta, on Mumbai, a city "with an identity crisis; " Chitrita Banerji, on "What Bengali Widows Cannot Eat"; Pankaj Mishra, on the making of jihadis in Pakistan and Afghanistan; and Rory Stewart, among the dervishes of Pakistan. Ramachandra Guha and Amit Chaudhuri remember cowboys and Indians and the dignity of American labor; Urvashi Butalia traces a family member through the political geography of India's Partition. Hanif Kureishi describes fundamentalist forces in Pakistani politics. And Nirad Chaudhuri writes on his 100th birthday. The collection includes a poem by Salman Rushdie about the fatwa, and fiction by R.K. Narayan, Amit Chaudhuri, and Nell Freudenberger.
The Granta Book of India brings together, for the first time, classic pieces from previous editions of Granta magazine on the experiences of Indian life, culture and politics.
Ian Jack edited Granta from 1995 to 2007, having previously edited the Independent on Sunday. He has written on many subjects, including the Titanic, Kathleen Ferrier, the Hatfield train crash and the three members of the IRA active-service unit who were killed on Gibraltar. He is the editor of The Granta Book of Reportage and The Granta Book of India, and the author of a collection of journalism, The Country Formerly Known as Great Britain. He lives in London and now writes for the Guardian.
'As one would expect, there is a five- star list of contributors ranging from Chitra Banerjee to Salman Rushdie and Mark Tully' "The Bookseller "(Travel Bookseller")"'All are eminently readable' "Business Standard" (New Delhi)'India can't even begin to be done in 287 pages, but Granta does a creditable job of shining at least a flickering torchlight on its many paradoxes'" Outlook" (New Delhi) 'A thoughtful anthology... a true insight into modern India from both inside and out... entertaining, informative and intriguing style... innovative writing... presents a broad sense of the culture that is well worth a read'"The Big Issue Wales" 'India is reflected from breathtakingly varied angles in these 18 engaging pieces of memoir, reportage and fiction... They offer windows into India's diverse culture, politics and lifestyles from rich and poor, insiders and outsiders'"Observer" 'A gallimaufry to pack with the guidebook'"The Telegraph" 'There's humour and every other range of human emotion in "The Granta Book of India'""Traveller magazine" 'Here we have the steady hand of Ian Jack at the helm as writer after writer offers us their views on India and what it is like to be Indian, either by birth or default... Eighteen writers, each one with something precious to impart'"Irish Times" 'Even those who do not have any great fascination with India will find this collection of 18 stories an interesting read... a glimpse of India's recent history through experiences of life, culture and politics. Ian Jack... gives an entertaining snapshot of the past three decades in his introduction'"Colchester Evening Gazette"
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