Happy Birth Day to India and my Discovery of It!

[lincolnlincoln]

Friday- Today is India's 61st Birthday. Yes India got her Independence on August,15, 1947. It reminded me of the book I've been reading for awhile called "The Discovery of India" written by first Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru. He wrote this book when he was incarcerated in prison by British while fighting for India's Freedom. The amazing

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from beastmomma

[anonymous]

Happy Independence Day India! Have you read Midnight's Children by Rushdie? I learned a lot from that book about the process of India's independence.

Re: from beastmomma

[lincolnlincoln]

Beastmomma,

I am going to check out Midnight's Children-Salman Rushdie. Thank you for your recommendation. I usually don't read fiction except few classics but I will check this out.

Non-fiction first

[paritoshuttam]

Hi,

I would suggest reading other non-fiction books about India first and then fiction, so that the satire and context would be clearer. You could take up (1) India After Gandhi by Ramchandra Guha and (2) India--A Million Mutinies Now by VS Naipaul

- Paritosh

Re: Non-fiction first

[lincolnlincoln]

Hello Paritosh,

Thank you for your recommendations. I actually read the reviews of India after Gandhi little while ago and it was fantastic. I never heard of your second one. I believe it will be good too as you took the time to recommend.
Could you tell me how you came to read my blog. If want to email me then my email id is tk525@nyu.edu

Thank you.