Thus begins this provocative, stylist, and racy literary rant against India by a twenty-four-year-old awaiting capital punishment : hoisting so huge a historic and political canvas to paint upon - opening at the Emergency that almost murdered Democracy and culminating in the Godhra riots, which almost destroyed secuarlism - a canvas so grand, it will leave you staggered .... and set the tone for a modern story of an ancient Mad Nation ! Long listed for the MAN Asian Literary Prize, Autobiography of a Mad Nation is written on an epic scale - where history, personal friendships, love for a nation and belief in its values, sense of great literature, fight against censorship, passion for ideas, and a zeal for unforgettable characters and dialogue fuse - to leave a mesmerizing impact on the minds of readers who discerningly distinguish between great, and all else