A Family Affair: India Under Three Prime Ministers [Hardcover]

Ved Mehta (Author)

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• Hardcover: 166 pages
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA (June 3, 1982)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0195031180
• ISBN-13: 978-0195031188
• Product Dimensions: 8.6 x 5.8 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.5 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,586,688 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars a timeless masterpiece, August 5, 2003

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Ved Mehta is one of those almost forgotten Great Writers we have. This book is a companion to A Portrait of India, but is a gem in it's own. It gives great insight into India, maybe because the writer is Indian and became American later.
Check out his autobiographical series as well - they're even better. If you are not interested in India, you can read his books just for the pure joy of reading beautiful, elegant English. Mehta was a staff writer for the New Yorker for quite a while, but somehow he never got as famous as some other New Yorker writers. An undeserved fate.