Butter Chicken In Ludhiana: Travels In Small Town India - Softcover

Pankaj Mishra

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9780143421238: Butter Chicken In Ludhiana: Travels In Small Town India

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0143421239 ISBN 13: 9780143421238

Publisher: PENGUIN BOOKS INDIA, 2006

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In Butter Chicken in Ludhiana, Pankaj Mishra captures an India which has shrugged off its sleepy, socialist air and has become instead kitschy, clamorous and ostentatious. From a convent educated beauty pageant aspirant to small shopkeepers planning their vacation in London, Pankaj Mishra paints a vivid picture of a people rushing headlong to their tryst with modernity. An absolute classic, this is a witty and insightful account of Indias aspirational middle class.

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About the Author:

Pankaj Mishra was born in North India, in 1969. He is the author of a novel, The Romantics, which won the LA Times Art Seidenbaum award for first fiction; and a highly acclaimed book about the Buddha, An End to Suffering: The Buddha in the World. Mishra writes for several publications, including the New York Review of Books, the New Statesman, Granta, the Times Literary Supplement and the Guardian.

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