Superstar India Engelska 2024
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ISBN:
9780143102588
Förlag:
Penguin Random House India
Sidor:
468
Vikt:
677 g
Produktmått:
12
,
9 x 19
,
8 x 3 cm
Bokomslag:
Pocketbok
Thema:
- Society and culture: general
- Asian history
It all began when, viewing the breathless preparations for independent India's 60th birthday celebrations - and poised then on her own sixth decade - Shobhaa De was struck by the thought: "Surely my life has taken the same trajectory as the country's?" In an intimate confession to her listeners, she answers that question, and many more: Does India really deserve to congratulate itself? Has it lived up to the early promises it made to its people? Does the author believe in India herself? Surveying the many images of the country, De points out that for every truism about India, the opposite is also true: India as the land of the meek; India as inheritor of the earth; India gherao-ed by distinctly unfriendly neighbours; Indians fleeing to jobs in the West and then racing right back to a better life; Indians who ape their erstwhile colonizers and yet cling irrationally to tradition.
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