When Mark Tully co-authored his first book on India, I'm told he was tempted to sign off after every 200 words. Not because he did not have enough to say, but electronic media drills into you the idea of economy of words. And it's not such a handicap when the subject you choose is a humongous country of over a billion people. Mark Tully has skillfully told the story of...
It is a muddle of a new kind. An anti-corruption crusade which has united Indians as a single soul after 65 years and a resurgent nation that pines for salvation through its economic policy of vigorous privatisation and lowering of barriers could seem incompatible. Yet they co-exist in chaotic bliss. Veteran journalist and inveterate writer Mark Tully tries to freeze in fine print this blundering nation of 1.2 billion on...