Palash Krishan Mehrotra
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Part memoir, part travelogue, part social commentary, this is the first book about New India to be written from an insider's pers
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pective, some of the stories it tells are of a doomed call centre worker, a drug dealer on the make, an airline pilot dreaming of the French Riviera, Versova's scriptwriters, watching Doordarshan in the eighties, the coming of MTV, the rise of heavy metal bands, the Gay Pride march, 'loving jihad' on Valentine's Day, ragging in Indian hostels, McJobs, the single life.
Old enough to remember the steam train but young enough to appreciate broadband, free to flirt with the West and dream, India's Butterfly Generation flits back and forth between Hindi and English, Bollywood and Hollywood, the little black dress and the six-yard sari. Palash Krishna Mehrotra details these varied journeys in on of the finest, most original works of non-fiction from India in years.
Review
Once started, I could not put it down...It is brilliant prose, full of wit. --Khushwant Singh, The Telegraph
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