Well, Ramachandra Guha's India After Gandhi is not a literary masterpiece - nor does it talk about our culture. So what is a work on political history doing in this blog? To point out exactly that - lack of focus on things other than turmoils in post-independent India. The book discusses the struggles of India at great lengths, but does not seem to be interested in its triumphs just as much. Also, the book does not provide even a cursory look at the cultural changes in modern India.The book is very readable, and does not get boring even for such a huge work - it is nearly 1000 pages long.
Somehow, from the title, I thought it was a take on 'Indira Gandhi' (Indi(r)a after Gandhi), but that's false?
ReplyDeleteHehe...yeah, it is not a take on any single person after all. I thought facts were really appealing - he definitely knows how to write :).
ReplyDeleteKarthik and myself just love this book. Haven't reached till the end though. How much our country has struggled to arrive at this juncture :-(
ReplyDeleteWell, that is the one problem with the book right? It focuses on our struggles more than our triumphs, which is a skewed view :(.
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