The Other Country: Dispatches from the Mofussil

Mrinal Pande

Penguin Books India

240 pages, Rs. 350

Pande’s stories about India’s small towns trace the familiar fault lines between the metropolis and the mofussil. The book features reportage about a host of contemporary issues including the divide between English and Hindi and its effect on literature and media, the roots of the anti-outsider movement in Mumbai and the water crises facing towns and villages in India.