Penguin Books, India

India is a global giant, its population second only to that of China. What happens in India in the 21st century will have a profound effect on Asia and beyond. This book is by two writers who express love for the country in strikingly different ways. Based on six years of near-constant travel across the enormous landscapes of the subcontinent, the book is an unsparing look at the fault lines running through contemporary India and an invitation to explore further.

The coauthors are poet and journalist Dom Moraes and editor and journalist Sarayu Srivatsa. Moraes has published the award-winning A Beginning, and nine other collections of poetry, as well as 23 prose books, including the biography Mrs. Ghandi. Srivatsa was editor of Indian Architect and Builder and published the book Where the Streets Lead in 1997. Both writers now live in Mumbai, India.