Posted on 22/07/06
Thoroughly unmodern millions
Temptations of the West:How to be Modern in India, Pakistan, Tibet, and BeyondBy Pankaj MishraFarrar, Straus & Giroux,323 pages, $33.75In one scene in Temptations of the West, Pankaj Mishra finds himself in a hillside town in Kashmir, the Himalayan valley positioned so disastrously between the warring politics of India and Pakistan. He has travelled there to investigate a fire that destroyed a shrine to a 15th-century patron-saint. Having talked to locals and noted the destitution, he prepares to leave.
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