India
Subtitle: a mosaic
By: Ian Buruma ... [et al.] ; edited by Robert B. Silvers and Barbara Epstein ; preface by N. Ram, introduction by Arundhati Roy.
Contributors: Buruma, Ian.; Silvers, Robert B.; Epstein, Barbara, 1929-
Publisher: New York Review Books
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 285
Subjects: India
Description: "In these nine essays that were originally published in The New York Review of Books, seven distinguished writers offer penetrating insights into the complexities of the subcontinent. Roderick MacFarquhar reflects on the legacy of Empire and Partition, Ian Buruma investigates the challenges to secularism in Indian democracy, Christopher de Bellaigue explores the violent politics of Mumbai, and Pankaj Mishra remembers life in turbulent Benares.

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 across the centuries."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
"Notes on the CD of Indian music.": p. 274-285.