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India Becoming: A Portrait of Life in Modern India

India Becoming: A Portrait of Life in Modern India

Kapur, Akash

Paperback

EconomicsGeneral World HistoryIndian & South Asian History

ISBN10: 1594486530
ISBN13: 9781594486531
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: Mar 5 2013
Pages: 336
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.20
Language: English
A New Republic Editors' and Writers' Pick 2012

A New Yorker Contributors' Pick 2012
A Newsweek Must Read on Modern India

For people who savored Katherine Boo's Behind the Beautiful Forevers.--Evan Osnos, newyorker.com

From the author of Better To Have Gone, a portrait of the incredible change and economic development of modern India, and of social and national transformation there told through individual lives

Raised in India, and educated in the U.S., Akash Kapur returned to India in 2003 to raise a family. What he found was an ancient country in transition. In search of the life that he and his wife want to lead, he meets an array of Indians who teach him much about the realities of this changed country: an old landowner sees his rural village destroyed by real estate developments, and crime and corruption breaking down the feudal authority; a 21-year-old single woman and a 35-year-old divorcee exploring the new cultural allowances for women; and a young gay man coming to terms with his sexual identity - something never allowed him a generation ago.

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