India in Mind - Softcover

Pankaj Mishra

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0330439529 ISBN 13: 9780330439527

Publisher: Pan Macmillan Books India, 2005

Synopsis

After 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 reactions 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 from 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 cast country and its people edited and introduction by pankaj mishra, one of the finest writers today, india in mind includes all-time favorites as well as lesser-known treasures jr ackerley attempting to learn hindi; allen ginsberg immersing himself in benares; vs 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 all the contributors are individually introduced

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From the Inside Flap

Ever since Herodotus reported that it was home to gold-digging ants, travelers have been intrigued by India in all its beguiling complexity. This superb anthology gives us some of the best fiction, nonfiction, and poetry that has been written about the world's second most populous nation over the past two centuries.
From Mark Twain's puzzled fascination with Indian castes and customs, to Allen Ginsberg's awe at the country's spiritual and natural splendors, or from J. R. Ackerley's delightful recollections of his visits with an eccentric gay Maharajah, to Gore Vidal's unforgettable scene in his novel Creation," in which his character finally meets the Buddha and is bewildered-all twenty-five selections in India in Mind" reveal a place that evokes, in the traveler, reactions ranging from fear and perplexity to astonishment and wonder. Edited and with an introduction and chapter notes by the award-winning novelist Pankaj Mishra, "India in Mind is a marvel of sympathy, sensitivity, and perception, not to mention outstanding writing.

About the Author

Pankaj Mishra was born in North India in 1969 and now lives in London and India. He is the author of The Romantics, which won the Los Angeles Times’s Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, and An End to Suffering: The Buddha in the World. He is a regular contributor to The New York Review of Books, Granta, and The Times Literary Supplement.

About this edition

• Publisher: Pan Macmillan Books India
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0330439529
• ISBN 13: 9780330439527
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 335