Journal Entry 1 by Antheras from Waterloo, Ontario Canada on Friday, February 26, 2010

This anthology on India is a vivid, multicolored collection of writings, musings, poems by 25 well-known writers ranging from Rudyard Kipling, George Orwell to Mark Twain and Gore Vidal.

This book gives us a view of how India was perceived and written by each of these writers right from the 19th century to present day. The reactions that India revokes are "complex, ranging from awe and wonder to repulsion and rejection," as Pankaj Mishra describes in his introduction to this anthology.