Both a stunning evocation of India and a personal memoir… at once entertaining, enlightening and affecting’
In 1972 James Cameron , newly married to an Indian, returned to India. a country he had known since before the end of the Raj. It was a land with which he was already deeply in love - at once exasperating, generous beautiful and corrupt. When he describes the sounds and smells and characters and inevitable encounters of India he is unparalleled… It is his ability to come to term with India’ seething confusion which makes the descriptive passage required reading for a newcomer to the country.