The end of karma hope and fury among India's young

"A penetrating, personal look at contemporary India--the world's largest democracy at a moment of transition. Somini Sengupta emigrated from Calcutta to California as a young child in 1975. Returning thirty years later as the bureau chief for The New York Times, she found a vastly different country:...

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Main Author: Sengupta, Somini (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : W. W. Norton & Company, [2016]
Edition:First Edition.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Aspiration, like water
  • "Hi-fi" : how to outrun fate
  • Gates : keeping out the lives of others
  • Guerrilla : paying for broken promises
  • Strongman : aspiration gets into politics
  • Facebook girls : speaking up, testing democracy's conscience
  • Apostates : when they dared to love
  • Curse : a father's fears, a daughter's dreams.