Indian portrait slips out of focus
It’s probably inevitable that a book aiming to offer ‘‘an intimate biography of 1.2 billion people’’ should end up feeling a bit diffuse and patched-together, and in this respect Patrick French’s new book resembles the mongrel nation it describes.
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By Patrick French
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It’s probably inevitable that a book aiming to offer ‘‘an intimate biography of 1.2 billion people’’ should end up feeling a bit diffuse and patched-together, and in this respect Patrick French’s new book resembles the mongrel nation it describes.
French, whose last book was a 2008 biography of VS Naipaul, returns with a lengthy meditation on the history, ...
