India; from Midnight to the Mi
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"Few books in recent years, if any, offer such a comprehensive overview of what ails India, its politicians and its people; and few writers, apart fro m Nirad Chaudhury and V. S. Naipaul, benefit ...
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"Few books in recent years, if any, offer such a comprehensive overview of what ails India, its politicians and its people; and few writers, apart fro m Nirad Chaudhury and V. S. Naipaul, benefit so obviously from the perspect ive Tharoor offers, that of an Indian with a profound empathy for his nativ e culture, combined with the insight made possible by following India's pro gress from afar." --New York Times "A hard-hitting, powerfully analytical and supremely articulate new book. . . . Tharoor discusses the 'flawed miracle of Indian democracy' from variou s angles, opting for a take-no-prisoners approach as he criticizes politici ans, unpacks layers of misguided governmental policies and exposes the atav istic tendencies of special-interest pols." --Newsday "Tharoor looks back at his country's first 50 years of independence, descri bing its challenges (illiteracy, poverty, sectarian violence and the ever-p resent caste problem) and its triumphs (a thriving democracy, a burgeoning economy) in lively, informative prose. He is particularly adept at describi ng all that India and Indians are not--not the same ethnicity, religion or language--to arrive at the nation's essence: that 'the singular thing about India was that you could only speak of it in the plural'." --Seattle Times.
Product Info
ISBN: 0140270515
ISBN-13: 9780140270518
Publisher: Penguin Books Australia
Year: 1998
Type: Used
Binding: Softcover
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