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...