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==Travel==
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{{newreview
|author=Siddhartha Deb
|title=The Beautiful and the Damned: Life in the New India
|rating=4.5
|genre=Travel
|summary=This book immediately caught my eye with its terrific front cover. A picture says more than a thousand words ... But I was conscious that, as a work of non-fiction, it may be full of rather dry facts and figures that I was going to have to plough through with grace and patience. Couple that with, in my opinion, most of the Indian writers that I have read, have in my experience been unnecessarily wordy and flowery (and exasperating) choosing to use fifteen words when one or two would be nicely. So, a little bit of trepidation as I open the book. The first thing to strike me is the intriguing contents page. As Deb is going to concentrate on a mere handful of individuals I'm not going to feel bombarded by hundreds of different stories vying for space on the page. Good start.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0670917303</amazonuk>
}}
{{newreview
|author=Michael Bond