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An essential reading for anyone trying to understand, and find answers to, some the most vexing issues troubling Indian society today Key Features This book attempts to map the divide between India and Bharat, urban and rural, developed and undeveloped India Mrinal is extremely well known media personality and is currently the chairperson of Prasar Bharati About the Book: The Other Country: Dispatches from the Mofussil The Other Country brings together a wide-ranging selection of essays by Mrinal Pande, one of India's most respected journalists. Through chronicle, anecdote and hard-hitting reportage, Mrinal traces the many, ever-widening fault lines between Bharat and shining India, the small town and the metropolis. Mrinal describes the Great Language Divide between Hindi and English, traces its origin, the role globalization has had in its spread, and the effect of this divide on contemporary literature and media. She vividly describes the anti-outsider movement in Mumbai and analyses the role that inequitable development, and the lack of opportunities in villages and small towns, has played in it. Mrinal tells the story of Prabha Devi of Tehri, Uttarakhand, who picked up scissors and comb to become village barber in the face of opposition and thus came to represent the enormous change in attitudes and stances that are now sweeping Indian society everywhere. And through a hilarious profile of the Mineral Water Baba of Faridabad, who can heal any ailment with a sealed bottle of mineral water, she analyses one of the big issues facing India's villages and metropolises: its water-management systems. About the Author: Mrinal Pande Mrinal Pande taught English Literature and the History of Art and Architecture in the universities of Allahabad, Delhi and Bhopal. She began her writing career in 1967 when her first Hindi short story was published in the weekly Dharmyug. Since then she has written fiction, plays and columns both in Hindi and English. She joined the Times o
