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Nine essays on India, all originally published in The New York Review of
Books.  The CD is also quite good, but seems quite disjoint from the book.

CONTENTS
N. Ram		Preface		xi
Arundhati Roy	Introduction		xv
	[shorter version of her "The End of Imagination" essay, re: this the
	critic at http://www.complete-review.com/reviews/india/amosaic.htm
	says:
	    Certainly this show of technological ability (and misguided
	    priorities) has not and will not make India (or Pakistan) a
	    "player" on the international stage;
        did it or did it not? can't tell how much it helped or hindered, but
	certainly there was a change since this time. ]
Ian Buruma
	India: The Perils of Democracy  3	(30)
Christopher de Bellaigue
	Bombay at War			33	(20)
Amartya Sen
	Tagore and His India		53	(54)
	[Draws on his Foreword to the Cambridge University Press edition of
	the Selected Letters of Rabindranath Tagore (1997)]
Anita Desai
	"Women Well Set Free"		107	(24)
	Damsels in Distress		131	(18)
		[both pieces on anthologies of Indian women's writing]
Roderick MacFarquhar
	India: The Imprint of Empire	149	(30)
	[Compares the tragedy of Indian partition with the handing back of
	 Hong Kong to China.]
Hilary Mantel
	States of Emergency		179	(16)
	[on Rohinton Mistry's A Fine Balance]
Pankaj Mishra
	Edmund Wilson in Benares	195	(30)
	A New, Nuclear, India?		225	(50)