Indian Essentials

by Penguin Books

Hum to Aise Hain, Bhaiya. (We are like this only, brother.) Celebrating 60 years of the Indian Republic, we bring you Indian Essentials, a light-hearted, tongue-in-cheek ode to India. In this quirky collection, twenty writers and social commentators ponder the mysteries of the Indian psyche and try to make sense of one trait, phenomenon or cultural value that is quintessentially Indian. From the Indian male s penchant for public urination to the Indian female s obsession with gold, from the jhatkas of Bollywood to the melas of Allahabad, from our embarrassingly frank matrimonials to how seriously we take our copulation problems, nothing is spared scrutiny. And because we Indians like a little something extra over and above what we are promised, we are giving away a complimentary copy of Extra! a little book that tackles all those peculiar Indian qualities that we didn t want to leave out of the Indian Essentials. Dip into this collection and join us to find out what it means to be Made in India. 1. Jerry Pinto 2. Indrajit Hazra 3. Namita Gokhale 4. Devdutt Pattanaik 5. Samrat 6. Soumya Bhattacharya 7. Sanjay Suri 8. Bachi Karkaria 9. Srividya Natarajan 10. Manjula Padmanabhan 11. Vikram Doctor 12. Arvind Krishna Mehrotra 13. Pratik Kanjilal 14. Renuka Narayanan 15. Anand Sahay 16. Vidya Subramaniam. 17. Punita Singh 18. Ira Pande 19. Family by Geeta Doctor 20. Seema Goswami

Genres: Nonfiction