Silvers, Robert B.; Barbara Epstein (ed.); (Arundhati Roy, intro);
India: A Mosaic
New York Review Books 2000 (Paperback, 288 pages $14.95)
ISBN 9780940322943 / 0940322943
topics: | essays | india
Nine essays on India, all originally published in The New York Review of Books. The CD is also quite good, but seems quite disjoint from the book. CONTENTS N. Ram Preface xi Arundhati Roy Introduction xv [shorter version of her "The End of Imagination" essay, re: this the critic at http://www.complete-review.com/reviews/india/amosaic.htm says: Certainly this show of technological ability (and misguided priorities) has not and will not make India (or Pakistan) a "player" on the international stage; did it or did it not? can't tell how much it helped or hindered, but certainly there was a change since this time. ] Ian Buruma India: The Perils of Democracy 3 (30) Christopher de Bellaigue Bombay at War 33 (20) Amartya Sen Tagore and His India 53 (54) [Draws on his Foreword to the Cambridge University Press edition of the Selected Letters of Rabindranath Tagore (1997)] Anita Desai "Women Well Set Free" 107 (24) Damsels in Distress 131 (18) [both pieces on anthologies of Indian women's writing] Roderick MacFarquhar India: The Imprint of Empire 149 (30) [Compares the tragedy of Indian partition with the handing back of Hong Kong to China.] Hilary Mantel States of Emergency 179 (16) [on Rohinton Mistry's A Fine Balance] Pankaj Mishra Edmund Wilson in Benares 195 (30) A New, Nuclear, India? 225 (50)