Temptations of the West : how to be modern in India, Pakistan, Tibet and beyond - Mishra, Pankaj (London : New Delhi : Penguin Books, 2006)
Benares : learning to read -- Allahabad : the Nehrus, the Gandhis, and democracy -- Ayodhya : the modernity of Hinduism -- Bollywood : India shining -- Kashmir : the cost of nationalism -- Pakistan : jihad globalized -- Afghanistan : communists, mullahs, and warlords -- Nepal : the "People's war" -- Tibet : a backward country.
Essays first appearing in slightly different forms in The New York Review of Books, Granta, The New York Times Magazine, and the Guardian Weekend Magazine.
Keywords: Mishra, Pankaj -- Travel -- South Asia; South Asia -- Description and travel; South Asia -- Civilization -- Western influences