Description
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: one defined as much by aspiration and possibility--at least by the illusion of possibility--as it is by the structures of sex and caste. The End of Karma is an exploration of this new India through the lens of young people from different worlds: a woman who becomes a Maoist rebel; a brother charged for the murder of his sister, who had married the "wrong" man; a woman who opposes her family and hopes to become a police officer. Driven by aspiration--and thwarted at every step by state and society--they are making new demands on India's democracy for equality of opportunity, dignity for girls, and civil liberties. Sengupta spotlights these stories of ordinary men and women, weaving together a groundbreaking portrait of a country in turmoil.
Author: Somini Sengupta
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 03/28/2017
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.40w x 0.80d
ISBN13: 9780393353600
ISBN10: 0393353605
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Developing & Emerging Countries
- History | Asia | South | General
- History | Social History