My fascination with India

[Dark Muse]

I beleive some of Tagore's poetry, and perhaps some essays were in the anthology book we had to read for the Indian History class I took

[WICKES]

You can't beat Kipling. He is out of favour at the moment because of his enthusiasm for the British Empire- which is a shame, beacuse whatever else he thought or felt he clearly loved India more than Britain

[Pecksie]

Hey,

I recently bought a book of short stories by Lavanya Sankaran, 'The Red Carpet'. It was OK, I guess --- the best thing about it was that it provided some insight into the middle and upper classes in present-day India.

If you're interested in India, I would suggest you read some history books. I've bought one called 'White Mughals', by William Dalrymple, about Englishmen who 'went native' and took Indian wives in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. I haven't read it yet, just browsed through it, but it looks very interesting. Will let you know when I come round to reading it

[thomas212]

You can't beat Kipling. He is out of favour at the moment because of his enthusiasm for the British Empire- which is a shame, beacuse whatever else he thought or felt he clearly loved India more than Britain

If you read nothing else,certainly.
Kipling is interesting for a period as EM Forster is,but India as an history and a life since the British colony(for some of us anyway).
Talking about this,The Oxford history of India by V A Smith is excellent and untertaining.

[prendrelemick]

Midnight's Children. by Salman Rushdie, a real delight that also charts the years after India's independence.

[mystery_spell]

I've only read Sister of my Heart by her, but Chitra Divakaruni is a wonderful author. I highly recommend Sister of my Heart and have no doubt that you'd enjoy some of her other novels as well.