"Nearly four decades ago, Dilip Hiro's Inside India Today, banned by Indira Gandhi's government, was acclaimed by The … Guardian as simply 'the best book on India.' Now Hiro returns to his native country to chronicle the impact of the dramatic … economic liberalization that began in 1991, which ushered India into the era of globalization. Hiro describes how India has …

lives. The son of an Indian father and an American mother, Akash Kapur spent his formative years in India and his early … that Kapur gives us in India Becoming. Among the characters we meet are a broker of cows who must adapt his trade to a … contradictory nature of modern India. India Becoming is particularly noteworthy for its emphasis on rural India -- a region often …