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| | Ved Mehta Writings Portrait of India |
 | | Portrait of India, based on Ved Mehtas years of study of India and his months of travel throughout the country, is the first definitive book on present-day India, and is likely to be historic in its singular power to make India, at last, real and comprehensible to Western readers. |
 | | "Portrait of India is not only one of the most honest works written about the country in recent years, it is also something very different-a formidably true book that employs a unique perception, without sensation or bias of any kind. |
 | | Mehta is, however, an artist, not an encyclopedist, and what he has created is a vast but subtle mosaic of scenes, impressions, atmospheres, moods, conversations, and historical and political reflections, all of which together convey, as nothing before has done, the essence of that awesome land. |
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