This book had been on my shelf for many years and I had been intending to get around to reading it. A forthcoming trip to India provided the incentive and I'm glad it did. A very readable book by a writer who clearly knows and loves India. It is strange given that love - and the fact that Cameron was married to an Indian woman and clearly very close to her family - that sometimes his writing strays into sweeping, sometimes brash, generalisations about India. Gripes about disorganisation, sanitation etc etc play quite a part in the book. But this book dates back to the '70s and - although Cameron's love for the country and its people clearly comes through - it is also dated by these generalised images. Nevertheless, bear all this in mind and you have a read that will give you great insight into this huge and diverse country.
I left this copy in December 2009 at the Coliseum Hotel (The 'Coli' is probably the most iconographic and romantic - if grungy! - accommodation in Kuala Lumpur).
- Mark Eveleigh (mark@markeveleigh.com)
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