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In India: From Midnight to the Millennium and Beyond, Shashi Tharoor casts his discerning eye on this fascinating, bewildering country, describing its challenges and its triumphs in lively, informative prose. Gandhi before India, the result of rigorous research across four continents, is the remarkable story of how a brief less lawyer in South Africa transformed into India's greatest man. Combining scholarship with sparkling wit, Land of the Seven Rivers explores how India's history was shaped by its geography. The result is a riveting, wry book, full of surprises