The beautiful and the damned : a portrait of the new India / Siddhartha Deb.

By:

Deb, Siddhartha, 1970-

Material type: Text

TextNew Delhi : Penguin Viking, 2011Description: 253 pages ; 24 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9780670085965 (pbk.)

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

954.05320922 DEB 23 002664

Contents:

The great Gatsby : a rich man in India -- Ghosts in the machine : the engineer's burden -- Red sorghum : farmers in the free market -- The factory : the permanent world of temporary workers -- The girl from F & B : women in the big city.

Summary: "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.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	Indian Institute for Human Settlements, Bangalore	954.05320922 DEB 002664 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		002664

"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.

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