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The End of Karma: Hope and Fury Among India's Young - Couverture rigide

Sengupta, Somini

 
9780393071009: The End of Karma: Hope and Fury Among India's Young
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0393071006 ISBN 13 : 9780393071009
Editeur : WW Norton & Co, 2016

Synopsis

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; and 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.

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À propos de l'auteur

Somini Sengupta, a George Polk Award-winning journalist, covers the United Nations for The New York Times, for which she was previously the bureau chief in Dakar and New Delhi. She was born in Calcutta and lives in New York.

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Éditeur
WW Norton & Co
Date d'édition
2016
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0393071006
ISBN 13 
9780393071009
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
256
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Personne responsable
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