Somini Sengupta

The End of Karma: Hope and Fury Among India's Young (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

[A] sharply observed study . . . richly detailed portraits.Economist

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 possibilityat least by the illusion of possibilityas 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 aspirationand thwarted at every step by state and societythey 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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. März 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780393292879
• Artikelnr.: 59592169

Autorenporträt

Somini Sengupta, a George Polk Awardwinning 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.