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Butter Chicken In Ludhiana : Travels In Small Town India

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Distinctive India's new middle class explored.

Butter Chicken in Ludhiana is a must-read for those interested in understanding how India's middle class is moving forward with globalization. Pankaj Mishra's colorful writing style is witty and insightful, making this book a delightful read. The book provides an in-depth look at the aspirations, dreams, and challenges of a society that is evolving rapidly.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

Butter Chicken In Ludhiana : Travels In Small Town India

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ISBN: 9780143421238
Authors: Pankaj Mishra
Publisher: PENGUIN BOOKS INDIA
Date of Publication: 2006-01-01
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Biographies & Memoirs, Travel
Related Topics: Memoir, Memoir, Adventure, Travelogue, Food
Goodreads rating: 3.54
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About the Book: Butter Chicken in Ludhiana: Travels in Small Town India A marvellous travel book, this witty and observant work describes small-town India in a never-before light, an India that is brash, kitschy, clamorous and ever-changing A contemporary classic, widely acclaimed as Pankaj Mishras best work In Butter Chicken in Ludhiana, Pankaj Mishra captures an India which has shrugged off its sleepy, socialist air, and has become instead kitschy, clamorous and ostentatious. From a convent-educated beauty pageant aspirant to small shopkeepers planning their vacation in London, Pankaj Mishra paints a vivid picture of a people rushing headlong to their tryst with modernity. An absolute classic, this is a witty and insightful account of Indias aspirational middle class. About the Author: Pankaj Mishra Pankaj Mishra is the author of five books, most recently From the Ruins of Empire. He writes for, among others, the New Yorker, the New York Review of Books and the Guardian. Review: An insightful and delightful travelogue through freshly-liberalised India- Times of India A delightful travel book- Business Standard Butter Chicken in Ludhiana demonstrate s the wonderful flexibility of non-fiction- Outlook One of the most disturbing and entertaining descriptions of the upwardly mobile classes in provincial India- New York Review of Books An excellent-and hilarious-account of lassitude and petty ambition in small-town India that evokes the world immortalized by R. K. Narayan- New York Times
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Distinctive India's new middle class explored.

Butter Chicken in Ludhiana is a must-read for those interested in understanding how India's middle class is moving forward with globalization. Pankaj Mishra's colorful writing style is witty and insightful, making this book a delightful read. The book provides an in-depth look at the aspirations, dreams, and challenges of a society that is evolving rapidly.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.