Volume 47, Number 3 · February 24, 2000
The Heart of the Matter
By John Bayley
The Romantics
by Pankaj Mishra
Random House, 260 pp., $23.95
India, which once so much fascinated writers from the West as different in their outlook as Rudyard Kipling and E.M. Forster, has come today to exercise the same degree of writerly fascination over its own youthful intelligentsia. The oddity and yet the inevitability of this is brilliantly revealed by the new young novelist Pankaj Mishra, who possesses or has acquired the gift of writing about his country both from the inside and the outside.
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