Granta : the magazine of new writing. 130, India : another way of seeing /
Granta : the magazine of new writing. 130, India : another way of seeing /
Ian Jack and Yuka Igarashi.
- Granta : Granta, 2015.
"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."
9781905881857 pbk.
Geography of and travel in Asia
"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."
9781905881857 pbk.
Geography of and travel in Asia