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Synopsis
A penetrating, personal look at contemporary India - a snapshot of the world's largest democracy at a moment of transition.The End of Karma explores India through the lens of young people from different worlds: a Maoist rebel; a woman killed because she married the 'wrong' man; a teenage girl who needles her dad to let her become a police officer. Driven by aspiration and thwarted by state and society - they are making new demands on India's democracy for equality of opportunity, dignity for girls, and civil liberties. Somini Sengupta spotlights these stories of ordinary men and women, weaving together a ground-breaking portrait of a country in turmoil.
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Review
The End of Karma brilliantly opens the door into the world of the striving young men and women of the new India as they try to shed India s past and invent their own future. Somini Sengupta s chosen characters are so vividly drawn and so sensitively reported. --Tina Brown"
The End of Karma is the essential beginning for any reader who wants to understand the future of the world s biggest democracy. With meticulously researched, grippingly told stories about youth in today s India, Sengupta s quest to understand her daughter s birthplace seized me like no other book coming from the country today. --Suketu Mehta, author of Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found"
In fluent, conversational style, Somini Sengupta asks that burning question of contemporary India 'What happens to a dream deferred?' by looking at the trajectories of seven lives. The resulting book is compelling, moving, necessary and, above all, truthful. --Neel Mukherjee, author of The Lives of Others
"...remarkable new book..." --The Observer New Review
"[Somini Sengupta] interweaves data, first-hand accounts and archival research to great effect." --The Economist, Best Books of 2016
About the Author
Somini Sengupta emigrated from Calcutta as a child in 1975 and grew up in California. Returning thirty years later to India as the first Indian-American bureau chief for The New York Times, she found a vastly different country: one defined as much by aspiration - at least by its illusion - as by the strictures of sex and caste.
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- PublisherHarperCollins India
- Publication date2016
- ISBN 10 9351777952
- ISBN 13 9789351777953
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages256
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