India : a mosaic
- Title
- India : a mosaic / Ian Buruma [and others] ; edited by Robert B. Silvers and Barbara Epstein ; preface by N. Ram, introduction by Arundhati Roy.
- Published by
- New York : New York Review Books, [2000], ©2000.
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- Description
- xxxiv, 285 pages; 23 cm +
- Summary
- "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.
- Subject
- Contents
- Preface / N. Ram -- Introduction / Arundhati Roy -- India: The Perils of Democracy / Ian Buruma -- Bombay at War / Christopher de Bellaigue -- Tagore and His India / Amartya Sen -- "Women Well Set Free" / Anita Desai -- Damsels in Distress / Anita Desai -- India: The Imprint of Empire / Roderick MacFarquhar -- States of Emergency / Hilary Mantel -- Edmund Wilson in Benares / Pankaj Mishra -- A New, Nuclear, India? / Pankaj Mishra -- Notes on the Indian Music CD / Gowri Ramnarayan.
- Owning institution
- Columbia University Libraries
- Note
- "Notes on the CD of Indian music.": p. 274-285.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.