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<description><![CDATA[<a class="highslide" href="https://picture.graycity.net/img/somini-sengupta/the_end_of_karma.jpg"><img src="https://picture.graycity.net/img/somini-sengupta/the_end_of_karma_preview.jpg" class="fr-fic fr-dib" title ="The End of Karma" alt ="The End of Karma"/></a><br//>A penetrating, personal look at contemporary India&#8212;the world's largest democracy at a moment of transition.Somini Sengupta emigrated from Calcutta to California as a young child in 1975. Returning thirty years later as the bureau chief for The New York Times, she found a vastly different country: one defined as much by aspiration and possibility&#8212;at least by the illusion of possibility&#8212;as it is by the structures of sex and caste. The End of Karma is an exploration of this new India through the lens of young people from different worlds: a woman who becomes a Maoist rebel; a brother charged for the murder of his sister, who had married the "wrong" man; a woman who opposes her family and hopes to become a police officer. Driven by aspiration&#8212;and thwarted at every step by state and society&#8212;they are making new demands on India's democracy for equality of opportunity, dignity for girls, and civil liberties. Sengupta spotlights these stories of...]]></description>
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