Review: The Other Country: Dispatches from the Moffusil

The Other Country is a collation of Mrinal Pande's recent columns for newspapers like the Mint, Telegraph and The Hindu. What makes the enterprise worthwhile is Pande's insights into the forces that push, pull or distort the world's largest democracy, and a fearless liberalism that isn't trying to squash itself into pat little moulds of right or left. 
She seems impatient with easy assumptions