From Thomas the Apostle to Slumdog Millionaire- how we imagine India, from the author of Delhi- Adventures in a Megacity.
Sam Miller was born and brought up in London, but has spent much of his adult life in India. He is a former BBC journalist and is the author of Delhi- Adventures in a Megacity (2009), Blue Guide- India (2012) and A Strange Kind of Paradise- India Through Foreign Eyes (2014). He is also the translator of The Marvellous (But Authentic) Adventures of Captain Corcoran (2016) by Alfred Assollant.
Sam Miller has written a wonderfully witty, wise, idiosyncratic and
properly hybrid book that achieves the near-impossible. It is at
once a touching personal memoir, a droll and discursive travelogue
and an erudite work of literary criticism which somehow manages to
be, at the same time, a hugely entertaining history of the world's
often confused dialogue with South Asia over three thousand years.
It is also, almost as an after-thought, a most moving love letter
to India.
*William Dalrymple, author of City of Djinns*
[Miller] is a congenial guide. He has a fantastically sharp eye…
Amid a torrent of sparkling details, what stands out is Miller's
heartfelt love for the country.
*Evening Standard*
Delightfully eccentric… A very readable account… Miller is the
master of the must-read footnote, while matching the travel writer
Eric Newby in his acute descriptions of contemporary life in
India.
*Financial Times*
Laconic and engaging… [An] attractive book.
*Literary Review*
Fascinating.
*Sunday Times*
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