Granta 57: India

Ian Jack introduces India's past 50 years, from nationhood through mid-life emergency measures crisis to its overwhelming potential. Twenty-two acclaimed writers wax pensive and lyrical: there's new fiction by Anita Desai, Amit Chaudhuri, Arundhati Roy, and R. K. Narayan; memoirs by Mark Tully, Nirad Chaudhuri, and Ved Mehta; pictures by Dayanita Singh; poems from Vikram Seth and Michael Ondaatje; an autobiographical account of the life of a pariah by Viramma; and a snippet of V. S. Naipaul's diary. All examine India's past, reflect on her present, and ponder her future now that her population — nearly a billion people — is on the brink of surpassing China's.

• Author
• Ian Jack

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 256

• Publisher
• Penguin Group

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 978-0-14-014147-4

• EAN
• 9780140141474

• Genres
• travel, india, fiction, anthologies

• Release date
• 1997