Subtitled, "How to be Modern in India, Pakistan, Tibet and Beyond". Judged by the N.Y. Times to be one of the ten best books of 2006. As new copy , dustjacket NOT price clipped, with a review laid in at the back by Hilary Mantel in the NY Review of Books. This is especially pertinent after the rejection of the West by the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan in August 2021.