Friday, November 18, 2011

The Beautiful and the Damned: A Portrait of the New India

Siddhartha Deb. Deb offers a refreshingly skeptical rejoinder to the feel-good narratives of an ascendant India happily contributing to and benefiting from globalization. His mosaic of stories of striving, hopes dashed or realized, is more craggy, gritty, and realistic than the glossy accounts of information technology and free markets as benign, modernizing forces--Publisher's Weekly (Check Catalog)

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