Sulekha Select: The Indian Experience in a Connected World
Synopsis:
"Sulekha Select was born of the long-standing demand of its loyal (and sometimes vociferous) readers for a print compilation of the most popular articles. True to the spirit of the Sulekha site itself, the 42 articles in the book were chosen from a pool of over 200 nominated articles, which readers selected from the over 1200 articles and columns published on Sulekha since 1998."
Book Excerpt:
From the foreword by Pritish Nandy: "Sulekha Select achieves the impossible. It integrates what I always thought could never be integrated. The complete Indian experience. It is so varied, so magical, so differently hued that I always believed India would forever remain an assemblage of multiple experiences held together by a tenuous thread of nationhood or Hindutva, or however you may choose to describe it. I always believed that the Bengali experience, the Tamil experience, the Maharashtrian experience, the Kashmiri experience, all added up to create the sum total of what we often describe as the Indian experience. An experience that cannot stand on its own otherwise. But Sulekha Select has proved me entirely wrong. I now discover that it is possible in a wired world to actually have a cohesive and complete experience that can be actually described as Indian."
Author Comment:
I was the chief editor of the original Sulekha version of this book (and author of one included piece, "Listen to the Background Music")
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Original Publish Date:
2000-08-01
ISBNs:
978-0970815705
Publishing Notes:
The book was later republished by Penguin (India) as "Black, White and Various Shades of Brown"
Formats:
Paperback
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