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**A __New Republic__ Editors' and Writers' Pick 2012****A __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 In

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Author

Akash Kapur

Publisher

Riverhead Trade (Paperbacks)

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9781594488191

Category

travel

Subjects

Political Science, Economics, Fiction

Rating

3.64 / 5 (310 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14