Borderline cases

Mr Damodaran sets out to write about the sleepy towns and villages on country's periphery

BORDERLANDS
Travels Across India’s Boundaries
Pradeep Damodaran
Hachette
388 pages; Rs 650
 
In recent years, there has been a welcome addition to the number of travelogues on India by Indians in the English language. The year 2015 saw the publication of 1,400 Bananas, 76 Towns & 1 Million People: A Journey Along the Indian Coast with Interludes of History, Food and Conversation by Samir Nazareth. Then came The Heat and Dust Project: The Broke Couple’s Guide to Bharat by Devapriya Roy and Saurav Jha, with two sequels planned — on travels in southern India and the Northeast. The