India: A Portrait (PB) by Patrick French

India: A Portrait (PB) by Patrick FrenchA monumental biography of the subcontinent from the award winning author of The World Is What It Is: The Authorized Biography of V. S. Naipaul. Second only to China in the magnitude of its economic miracle and second to none in its potential to shape the new century, India is fast undergoing one of the most momentous transformations the world has ever seen. In this dazzlingly panoramic book, Patrick French chronicles that epic change, telling human

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Winner of the NCR Award for non-fiction and the Boardman Tasker award

by one of the best-known and most popular philosophers in the UK

Written with the flair and seemingly effortless erudition that have made Gurcharan Das a bestselling author around the world - and enlivened by Das's forthright discussion of his own personal search for a more meaningful life - The Difficulty of Being Good shines the light of an ancient poem on the most challenging moral ambiguities of modern life

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