Up in Smoke

SOURCE: The New York Times, July 2, 2006   ENGLISH AUGUST by Upamanyu Chatterjee. New York Review Books,326 pages,$14.95. A specter haunts Indian writing — the specter of authenticity. In the pages of magazines and journals, at soirées and (sparsely attended) book parties in New Delhi, literature is being judged by a specious metric of […]