India Then & Now

Authors

• Vir Sanghvi

  Vir Sanghvi is probably the best-known Indian journalist of his generation. He became founder-editor of Bombay magazine when he was twenty-two and his career has included editorships of Imprint, one of India s first feature magazines, of Sunday, then India s largest-selling weekly newsmagazine, and of the Hindustan Times, north India s biggest English-language daily. Sanghvi also has a parallel career as an award-winning TV interviewer and has hosted various successful shows on the Star TV network and on the NDTV news channel. Among his other accomplishments is his role as India s premier food writer. His book Rude Food won the Cointreau Award, the International Food Business s Oscar for Best Food Literature Book in the world. He is the author (along with Rudrangshu Mukherjee) of India: Then and Now, also published by Roli Books --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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  Rudrangshu Mukherjee

  Rudrangshu Mukherjee is a historian and journalist. Currently running the editorial pages of The Telegraph, he has held various academic posts and taught, among others, at Calcutta, Princeton and Manchester universities. He is the author of several books, most recently Mangal Pandey: Brave Martyr or Accidental Hero, India Then and Now, Awadh in Revolt, 1857-58: A Study of Popular Resistance and Spectre of Violence: The 1857 Kanpur Massacres. He is also the editor of The Penguin Gandhi Reader and Great Speeches of Modern India. Mukherjee lives in Kolkata. Pramod Kapoor is a collector of historical records and photographs, and a publisher by prefession. The photographs for this book were lovingly collected over a long period of time from all over the world.