The same India with news stars

That said, this book has its share of flaws. For a reader not already familiar with modern Indian history, it may feel a little too rushed, like a film watched on fast forward. At times, Mr. French veers toward the hokey, regurgitating without skepticism nonsense about the Internet as "a Hindu concept, a deity with many arms," or the notion that the software firm Infosys has invented a new "Indian way of working," and claiming, somewhat breathlessly, that "India is a macrocosm, and may be the world's default setting for the future."