Butter Chicken in Ludhiana by Pankaj Mishra

In the name of ALLAH, Most High, Most Merciful, Most Knowledgeable, Most Forgiving

Butter Chicken in Ludhiana by Pankaj Mishra

Written with sarcasm, satire and surprise, Butter Chicken is a wonderful book about one of the world’s largest and most influential countries experiencing transition. India, land of the poor and the pragmatist. It has that endearing charm to it that all Indian written books have, soul. India, a country that takes an especially far-reaching intellect to describe its perplexity, is a portrait here of a nation finding their aspirations, wanting the wider arc of people to comprehend that they are now a force to be reckoned with.

Despite the dirt and the debris, Subhannallah, the immorality and open immodesty are something of a genuine surprise. Through the spanning years, with all the tales my ancestors would imprint into their future generations, they had painted India as the country with a sturdy sense of bashfulness. They still think it’s like that, though I fail to regard it as true after all the inexplicable nonsense they do there.

Read it when going to India, or when going anywhere, each chapter is a different story in a diverse city, something one could put down at length and resume another time as if he’d never stopped.