In praise of Ian Jack’s small town India
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Author Amitava Kumar explains why Jack is a rare writer, chronicling India’s neglected, small towns (BBC News)
A lifetime of reporting from the Indian subcontinent – that is one way to describe a recent anthology of journalist Ian Jack’s writing, collected under the evocative and accurate title, Mofussil Junction.
Perhaps I can get to a central truth of Jack’s reporting by recounting a story he tells in one of his earlier pieces.
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