A "New Republic" Editors' and Writers' Pick 2012A "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
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.
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