Manoj Das - My Little India

Manoj Das is a bilingual author in Odia and English literature known for his comic sense of writing. This book is more of a travelogue of his several visits across various parts of India over years. Initially, serialized and published in "The Statesman". Each of the 49 chapters are in some sense independent stories or explanation of a specific place, stories associated to the place and also some modern realities of the place now. You can read the book in one go. Fairly easy read, yet thought provoking. Also states the deep understanding of the author of India.