India (with CD): A Mosaic - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0940322080 ISBN 13: 9780940322080

Publisher: New York Review Books, 2000

Synopsis

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 writers offer 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.
Included is a specially commissioned CD containing a wide range of Indian music.

About this title

About the Author:

Arundhati Roy is a prominent Indian novelist, political activist, and non-fiction writer. In addition to winning the 1997 Booker Prize for her novel The God of Small Things, she was named one of TIME’s 100 most influential people of 2014. She lives in Delhi.

About this edition

• Publisher: New York Review Books
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0940322080
• ISBN 13: 9780940322080
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 288
• Editor: Epstein Barbara