"An entertaining tour de force"

- Sunday Times

"Shashi Tharoor reinvents India with a dazzling marriage of Hindu myth and modern history"

- Penguin Books

"Perhaps the best work of fiction written by an Indian"

- Khushwant Singh, All Asia Review of Books

"This is [a] fascinating novel. It made me sit up"

- P.Lal,Telegraph

"The Great Indian Novel is a masterpiece of Indian writing"

- Sunday Observer

"Shashi Tharoor's brilliantly written book.....merits to be called a classic"

- The Hindu

"Every sane Indian should buy a copy of this book"

- Indian Express

"A brilliant concept, well executed and something in it for everyone"

- The Book Review

"The Great Indian Novel might upset a few people, but more than that it will entertain and amuse"

- Bombay

"Certainly a Great Indian Novel...An almost reckless sense of humour, mixed with considerable wisdom" 

- Sunday Herald

"A real tour de force only an Indian could write"

- Financial Times

"Eminently readable"

- Debonair