Author: Mark Tully
Publisher: Penguin
Year: 2002
Language: English
Pages: 302
ISBN/UPC (if available): 0143030477
Description
A provocative, humorous, searching and deeply humane portrait of India.
Mark Tully is incomparable. No foreign commentator has a greater understanding of the passions, the contradictions, the charms and the resilience that constitute India. In India in Slow Motion, Tully and his colleague Gillian Wright delve further than ever before into this nation of over one billion people, attempting to unravel a culture that, famously, has always resisted unravelling.
India in Slow Motion is the account of a journey that for Tully and Wright has no true beginning or end. Covering a diverse range of subjects-from Hindu extremism to child labour, Sufi mysticism to the crisis in agriculture, the persistence of political corruption to the problem of Kashmir-this book challenges the preconceptions others have about India, as well as those India has about itself.
India is often depicted as a victim of forces too wild to be controlled-of post-colonial malaise, of religious strife, of the caste system, of a corrupt bureaucratic machine. India in Slow Motion refutes this, probing into the heart of the Indian experience and arguing that change is possible and that solutions do exist. In the process it brings the country and its people brilliantly alive.
REVIEWS
In everything he writes, Tully’s sympathy and knowledge shines through, He is indeed, incomparable among foreign observers of that bewildering, maddening, utterly enchanting medley of peoples.
-Geoffrey Moorthouse, guardian
Not since Kipling has one man’s love of India been so deeply revealed.
-Daily Mail
Contents
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
INTRODUCTION
The Reinvention of Rama
Misplaced charity
Corruption from Top to Tail
Altered Altars
Creating Cyberabad
The Sufis and a Plain Faith
Farmer’s Reward
A Tale of Two Brothers
The Water Harvesters
Paradise Lost
CONCLUSION