BOOKS ON INDIA, AN ANALYSIS: It needs more than love to write about India!

: Stepping into the soul of India is not easy for a foreign writer; the journey needs more than mere love for the country.The process requires an identification with history, facts at fingertips and an uncanny nose for immediate socio-political contexts, show landmark books written over the years.

"What is missing in French's book is evidence of a struggle to understand India and one's own place in it.French never gets much beyond the glib a*sertion in his preface that the new, cool India is the 'world's default setting for the future'," Adiga said.

William Dalrymple, the author of bestsellers such as "City of Djinns" and "The Last Mughal", is an example of what a foreigner can bring on the table at a time when Indians are also writing non-fiction about their country, Mahajan said."He has an unabashed eye for exotic details."

"India has always been an object of fascination for foreign writers because of its exoticism.Even the earliest of travellers and chroniclers like Ibn Batuta wrote about India extensively but with the specific purpose of cultural understanding," Dipa Chaudhuri, chief editor of Om Books, told IANS.

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