Chaudhuri’s Autobiography may be the one great book to have come out of the Indo-English encounter. No better account of the penetration of the Indian mind by the West—and, by extension, of the penetration of one culture by another—will be or now can be written.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Nirad C. Chaudhuri
Nirad C Chaudhuri, the world's oldest author, a superb writer and a Booker prize winner, published a book in his 100th year. He was a superb writer of exact and precise descriptive prose. Nirad has received numerous literary awards and prizes. He shot to fame with hisvery first book in 1951, The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian.
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