venkyloquist's review against another edition
3.0
India captured in all its peculiarities, in a manner that is delectable and delightful. Mark Tully lays out a compilation that manages to move the heart, mind and soul in one soft tug
avaneesh's review
2.0
doesn't really match up to the author's reputation. The most disconcerting fact, however, is that it has at least one factual mistake in it. Once that happens, you start to question the credibility of what the book is saying...
alexbond3's review
4.0
Short and sweet. I would have enjoyed a bit more context and historical background, but the collection of radio essays, interviews, and news reports by Mark Tully, the BBC's longtime correspondent in India, is a great jumping off point for learning about modern India. Tully is journalistically probing but honest and fair, and his love of India shows through everything. I know a lot more now than I did about the Nehru family (Indira, Rajiv and Sanjay Gandhi) and its decades-long hold on Indian political power, and various major events like the Indian army's attack on the Sikh Golden Temple in 1984, and the assassinations of Indira and Rajiv, and the Bhopal industrial disaster. I'm eager to continue diving into Indian history.
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