Mark Twain called India …
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Mark Twain called India a place of “splendor and rags…palaces and hovels…famine and pestilence.”A century later, David Brown and an award-winning team of reporters follow in Twain’s footsteps. They find Twain’s land of “fabulous wealth and fabulous poverty” now faces enormous challenges in its quest for superpower status.