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The End of Karma: Hope and Fury Among India's Young
Somini Sengupta
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Description for The End of Karma: Hope and Fury Among India's Young
Hardcover. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: HR. Dimension: 235 x 155. Weight in Grams: 666.
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 ... Read more
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Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780393071009
SKU
V9780393071009
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About Somini Sengupta
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.
Reviews for The End of Karma: Hope and Fury Among India's Young
"Anyone who imagines that India today is simply a land of IT companies and call centers should read this book. Somini Sengupta sees the new India in all its complexity-its gated towers and remote villages; its kidnapped maids and chief ministers; those who want to remake it into a Hindu nation and those who care only about getting ahead. India ... Read more