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India Becoming: A Portrait of Life in Modern India

India Becoming: A Portrait of Life in Modern India - Paperback

by Akash Kapur
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Availability:In StockContributor:Akash KapurAudience:Young AdultPublish date:2013-03-05Pages:336
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Riverhead BooksISBN-13:9781594486531ISBN-10:1594486530UPC:9781594486531Book Category:History, Business & EconomicsBook Subcategory:Asia, Modern, Economic ConditionsBook Topic:South, 21st CenturySize:8.20 x 5.40 x 0.90 inchesWeight:0.6Product ID:SCTDYY6NTB
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.
As Akash and his wife struggle to find the right balance between growth and modernity and the simplicity and purity they had known from the Indian countryside a decade ago, they ultimately find a country that "has begun to dream." But also one that may be moving away too quickly from the valuable ways in which it is different.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Riverhead BooksISBN-13:9781594486531ISBN-10:1594486530UPC:9781594486531Book Category:History, Business & EconomicsBook Subcategory:Asia, Modern, Economic ConditionsBook Topic:South, 21st CenturySize:8.20 x 5.40 x 0.90 inchesWeight:0.6Product ID:SCTDYY6NTB
Akash Kapur is the former writer of the "Letter from India" column for the International Herald Tribune, which has been picked up in the Week in Review section of The New York Times on occasion. He has also written for The Atlantic, The Economist, The New Yorker, and The New York Times Book Review. He holds a BA in Social Anthropology from Harvard University, and a doctorate in Law from Oxford University, which he attended as a Rhodes Scholar. He consults on development and media law for a number of organizations, including the United Nations. He lives outside Pondicherry in Southern India.
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