This book was lent to me by a colleague at work, together with another one about Gödel. The common theme for both books is the focusing on great mathematicians and how their eccentricities modelled their private life.
In this book the mathematician under scrutinity is Srinivasa Ramanujan. And the conflict about this character is how the educational system in India, in the early 20th century, almost completely missed him.
The book describes educational systems of the British India -or British Raj- and compares it to the education in England. Ramanujan genius struggles to thrieve in India. English system finally recognizes him, thanks to the intervention of G. H. Hardy; but still major flaws are attributed to British education in the book: for example in the extensive criticism to the Tripos exam.
But the book is not a nice and dynamic reading. It is a dense recollection of events about the cultural clash between India and England. I would say that Gödel's book, mentioned above, also focus on a similar clash, but that book does in a much more entertaining way. Perhaps Gödel's-quirks-versus-Princeton conflicts are much more interesting and specific than those of the India-versus-England clash that has been subject of other popuplar works.
Not really a reading I would recommend. It will teach something; but other media will do the same in a more entertaining way.