Read: The Age of Seth

November 30, 2011 15:03

First, read this: This is Suhel Seth's book review on Caravan magazine. The Age of Seth: How vice pays tribute to virtue in contemporary India.

The book was reviewed by Mihir S Sharma and is, to be put it mildly, not kind to the author.

Here's an excerpt: If there is something that strikes you as disingenuous in a chapter that urges you to pretend not to be seeking out celebrities in order to achieve success at seeking out celebrities, you are not alone. This off-key clash between tone and motive is the discordant leitmotif that runs through the book. For those of us less able or willing to carry off this cognitive dissonance with Seth's panache, Rule 6 is thus less helpful than it may have first seemed.

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