The beautiful and the damned
Subtitle: life in the new India
By: Siddhartha Deb
Publisher: Viking
Published: 2011
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 253
ISBN-13: 9780670917303
Subjects: Politics and government; Social conditions; Civilization; Economic conditions
Other titles: Life in the new India
Description: "A personal, narrative work of journalism and cultural analysis, The beautiful and the damned examines India's many contradictions through five individual perspectives"--Publisher's description.
Table of contents: title: The great Gatsby : a rich man in India; title: Ghosts in the machine : the engineer's burden; title: Red sorghum : farmers in the free market; title: The factory : the permanent world of temporary workers; title: The girl from F & B : women in the big city.