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My feelings on Temptations of the West are very mixed. To start, the book has little do with the title, or subtitle How to be Modern.. Mishra writes mainly of the history of the subcontinent rather than its future. His journalistic tendencies come out a lot throughout the book. Each chapter reads more like distinct articles rather than as chapters of a single unified book. However, whether they are distinct articles or unifying chapters, his editor could have been stepped in more. Particularly in the chapters on Kashmir and Pakistan, he really could have wrapped his points better. There was always another episode or encounter that got in the way of the larger narrative. On the positive, Mishra get his content spot on. I will start with Kashmir. As a secular Hindu Indian American, I have never understood why India and Pakistan have pushed the world to the brink of nuclear war 2-4 times over this woe-begotten state of rock and snow. Ive heard fundamentalist Hindus or nationalistic Indians argue passionately that India should sacrifice all to keep Kashmir, to avenge Kargil. But why? The argument usually follows the vein of it belongs to us. Misra provides context for both Muslims and Hindus. He also provides a thread that links the anti-Soviet Afghan freedm fighters to the Kashmiri insurgency movement 1990s and back to the Taliban of the 2000s. Mishra does this a lot. Whether it his chapter on Ayodhya or Allahabad, he provides links to other mass movements in the subcontinent over the past 100 years. The larger point that he seems to make is that the region is a much more brutal and hopeless place than Ive ever thought. Ex. its the fate of Brahmins whose land was taken by Nehru and then whose job prospects were given to untouchables. Or Muslims who escape one massacre just to wait for the next massacre all with the governments tacit approval. Or its Afghan women who either face the rage of extremists in the city or the dead, arid land in the countryside. Pankaj, dude, lets go out get a beer, watch some football and lighten up a bit. Or should that be a hot toddy and cricket.
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