This is just one of the authors many keen observations of Chennai.With mordant wit, this biography of a city spares neither half of its split-personality: from moody, magical Madras to bursting-at-the-seams, tech-savvy Chennai.
Product Details
Title:
Tamarind City: Where Modern India Began
Author:
Bishwanath Ghosh
Publisher:
TRANOUEAR PUBLICATION
ISBN:
9789357767774
SKU:
BK0382150
EAN:
9789381626337
Number Of Pages:
344
Language:
English
Place of Publication:
India
Binding:
Paperback
Reading age :
18 years and up
Release date:
3 April 2012
About Author
Bishwanath Ghosh, an Indian writer and journalist, best known for his literary travelogues which describe the real essence of India. His most recent book is Gazing at Neighbours: Travels Along the Line That Partitioned India, published in August 2017. He is also the author of Longing, Belonging: An Outsider at Home in Calcutta (2014), which is a portrait of present-day Kolkata, and the acclaimed Tamarind City: Where Modern India Began (2012), which is a portrait of Madras, now known as Chennai. In 2009 he published the bestselling Chai, Chai: Travels in Places Where You Stop but Never Get Off, which The Telegraph (Kolkata) called "a delightful travelogue with a difference." Blog: http://bytheganges.blogspot.in/
