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Mofussil Junction Indian Encounters 1977-2012
Author: Ian Jack
ISBN: 9780670086443
Binding: Hard Cover
Publishing Year: 2013
Publisher: Viking
Number of Pages: 322
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INR 899.00
About Book
In this collection of essays, profiles and reportage, Ian Jack explores a wide and unlikely range of subjects, which he encountered in more than thirty years of reporting from India and its subcontinental neighbours. Some of the India he describes has vanished: the drift of coal smoke from passenger trains, tea drunk from clay kulhads at country junctions. Some of it remains obscure: Orwells birthplace in Motihari, the Anglo- Indian search for a homeland in McCluskiegunge. Some of it perseveres: the NehruGandhis, the distress, the politics, and the hospitality. The choice is eclectic: he writes about G.D. Birla and river steamers on the one hand, and Benazir Bhutto and railway accidents on the other. But every piece in this selection is informed by the authors acute insights and superb eye for detail, expressed in luminous, evocative prose.
About Author
Ian Jack edited Granta from 1995 to 2007, and before that the Independent on Sunday. His several awards for journalism include Reporter of the Year and Editor of the Year. He now writes a column for the Guardian and lives with his family in London. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
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