India Rising: Tales From a Changing Nation

In India Rising Oliver Balch takes the voices and stories of everyday Indians and presents a fresh, vivid, highly personalized account of the changes as they are unfolding. Travelling the length and breadth of the country, Balch leads readers off the tourist trail and onto the streets of modern day India. Through Mumbai, Delhi and Chennai, from Bollywood to cricket stadiums, from shopping malls to rural schools and shanty towns, the book blends the best of reportage and travel writing to get under the skin of this nation in transition.

What emerges is a captivating portrait of a country at a crossroads, but brimming with optimism and hope. India Rising unpicks what makes this vast nation tick and asks where it's heading.