Butter Chicken In Ludhiana
(Pankaj Mishra)
Pankaj Mishra''s book takes him all across India, focussing in on small towns from the North to the South, East to the West.
Western readers would do well to have a map handy (none is provided in the book) if they want to get a sense of Mishra''s routes;
Fortunately Mishra is particularly interested in the people he encounters, and he has a great deal of contact with the locals, though almost always as a mere passerby.
(There are also figures and scenes suggestive of those appearing in his novel The Romantics (see our review).) Transformation is everywhere in this rapidly changing society, and at times Mishra, then in his mid-twenties, sounds like a nostalgic old man talking about the good old days.
A literary type (among the authors he mentions reading along the way is Iris Murdoch, among the papers and magazines he reads along the way the London review of Books), one of Mishra''s highlights is "discussing Thomas Mann on a rainy morning in Kerala over genuine South Indian coffee."
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