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Penguin among pirates. (Penguin India)

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From: The Economist (US)
Date: 19880116
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ALTHOUGH non-Indians have a current passion for books on india, few Indians have read the works of E.M. Forster, Rudyard Kipling, Miss Anita Desai or Mr Salman Rushdie.

Around 40% of Indians are illiterate; of those called literate, many can barely write their names; the middle classes are reluctant to read, and book-buying intellectuals are, for the most part, students in the cities. On occasion, the buying power of these students produces a success; 27,000 copies have been Sold of Mr M.J. Akbar's celebrated political study, "India: The Siege Within". A popular author such ...

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