India News: NEW DELHI: During Prime Minister Narendra Modi's official visit to France, French President Emmanuel Macron presented him with several gifts that hold.
In an excerpt from his forthcoming memoir, the author recalls his 1970s conquest of London's ink-stained thickets, some disastrous "research" with Martin Amis at a New York bordello, and encounters with everyone from Ian McEwan to Thomas Pynchon to Margaret Thatcher