India Another Way of Seeing /
[editor, Ian Jack].
- London : Granta, 2015
- 288 pages illustrations 20 cm.
- Granta 130 .
- Granta 130 .
Cover title.
Introduction. Drone / Hari Kunzru Love Jihad / Aman Sethi Double-income family / Deepti Kapoor Shunaka: Blood count / Karthika Nair̀ˆ Pyre / Amitava Kumar Shoes / Anjali Joseph Another way of seeing / Gauri Gill and Rajesh Vangad with introduction by Michael Collins English summer / Amit Chaudhuri Gandhi the Londoner / Sam Miller Ghost in the Kimono / Raghu Karnad Sanjay Nagar blues / Anjum Hasan Othello sucks / Upamanyu Chatterjee Breach Candy / Samantha Subramanian Anawadi / Katherine Boo with Vijay Gadge, Devo Kadam, Sudip Sengupta and Unnati Tripathi This year too in the plains This colourful picture / Vinod Kumar Shukla Sticky fingers / Arun Kolatkar Rain at three / Tishani Doshi Wrong square / Neel Mukherjee Ghachar ghochar / Vivek Shanbhag Bachelor father / Kalpana Narayanan
"For a long time? too long? the mirror that India held to its face was made elsewhere. 'What writer about the country would you recommend I read?' first-time travellers to India would ask, and in the later twentieth century the answer was still Forster or Naipaul or even the long-dead Kipling. In fiction, that changed with Rushdie. Now it has changed in all kinds of non-fiction. Narrative history, reportage, memoir, biography, the travel account: all have their gifted exponents in a country perfecting its own frank gaze."--Granta website