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The End of Karma: Hope and Fury Among India's Young Hardcover – Illustrated, March 7, 2016

by Somini Sengupta (Author)

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A penetrating, personal look at contemporary India―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―at least by the illusion of possibility―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―and thwarted at every step by state and society―they are making new demands on India’s democracy for equality of opportunity, dignity for girls, and civil liberties. Sengupta spotlights these stories of ordinary men and women, weaving together a groundbreaking portrait of a country in turmoil.

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256 pages
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English
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W. W. Norton & Company
Publication date

March 7, 2016
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6.5 x 1 x 9.6 inches
ISBN-10

0393071006
ISBN-13

978-0393071009
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"[A] sharply observed study...richly detailed portraits....What separates the book from the musings of so many other foreign correspondents is the lens through which Sengupta sees the country: that of a mother."
― Economist

"Thoughtful and timely...Sengupta balances strong impartial analysis with emotional investment."
― Wall Street Journal

"Portentous...Returning to a transformed nation--its economies in bloom, its cities abuzz--[Sengupta] sensed a fresh impatience of aspiration....Vibrant."
― New York Times Book Review

"Sengupta does a wonderful job of detailing the distinct lives of seven young individuals struggling to fulfill their educational and economic dreams…Highly recommended."
― Kirkus (starred review)

"Anyone who imagines that India today is simply a land of IT companies and call centers should read this book. Somini Sengupta sees the new India in all its complexity―its gated towers and remote villages; its kidnapped maids and chief ministers; those who want to remake it into a Hindu nation and those who care only about getting ahead. India is home to nearly a fifth of the world’s people―few places will be more important to the shape of the twenty-first century. The End of Karma, with its vivid storytelling and intimate portraits of India’s younger generation, is a riveting vision of the future."
― Larissa MacFarquhar, author of Strangers Drowning

"The End of Karma brilliantly opens the door into the world of the striving young men and women of the new India as they try to shed India’s past and invent their own future. Somini Sengupta’s chosen characters are so vividly drawn and so sensitively reported."
― Tina Brown

"The End of Karma is the essential beginning for any reader who wants to understand the future of the world’s biggest democracy. With meticulously researched, grippingly told stories about youth in today’s India, Sengupta’s quest to understand her daughter’s birthplace seized me like no other book coming from the country today."
― Suketu Mehta, author of Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found

About the Author

Somini Sengupta, a George Polk Award–winning journalist, covers the United Nations for The New York Times, for which she was previously the bureau chief in Dakar and New Delhi. She was born in Calcutta and lives in New York.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ W. W. Norton & Company; Illustrated edition (March 7, 2016)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 256 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0393071006
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0393071009
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.19 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.5 x 1 x 9.6 inches

Best Sellers Rank: #1,822,087 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #2,065 in India History
- #2,532 in Globalization & Politics
- #9,650 in Women in History

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Alex Counts

Essential for Understanding India Today, and Tomorrow

Reviewed in the United States on May 29, 2016

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As someone who has been interested and involved in the Indian subcontinent for more than 30 years, I am always on the lookout for original insights about this complex part of the world. Somini Sengupta's book "The End of Karma" drew me in and never let go -- I finished it in three sittings, during a trip to India, in fact. Its insights drawn from a handful of case studies of young people shaking up India in ways large and small make for a great book. Anyone trying to understand the future of this country that is destined to shape the world over the next 100 years would benefit from reading this slim and highly satisfying volume. I found the first and the last case studies, and the opening chapter that sets the context, to be the best parts, but each chapter has its special gifts.

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b. Dillon doyle

Entertaining, well written "Spot On" read

Reviewed in the United States on July 18, 2016

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This was a well written enjoyable read that was informative without being boring. I sent a copy to my friend in Jodphur India to see what they thought of it and they said it was "Spot On." (I believe that means it is accurate.) Even if you do not have any reason to read up on India for work this is an entertaining read for anyone who wants to talk about more things that tv commercials and romance novels (although there are some nicely written ones out there). But this for your library and for your mind!

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Manisha Shah

great read

Reviewed in the United States on December 31, 2018

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A well-written and engaging account of modern India from 7 different perspectives. Its fast to read, informative, and interesting. Can't recommend it enough.

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Alon Shalev - Elfwriter

Stunning Book

Reviewed in the United States on May 8, 2017

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For anyone who has allowed India under their skin, this book weaves through the lives of several young people - the future of India - and, in doing so, helps us understand both India's past and present.

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Ac2zoom

Unbelievable stories of hope, ambition, and fear

Reviewed in the United States on October 22, 2017

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I read this book in preparation for a study abroad program to India. Having visited the country many times, and having grown up around family that live and grew up in the country, I didn't realize just how much I still had to learn about how its current state of being came to be and why. Thank you to the author for providing me this introduction.

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Johan Erik Jacobsen

An inside picture of young people in India today.

Reviewed in the United States on November 20, 2018

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This excellent book provides a detailed picture of young people in India, their thinking, their mobility, their plans for their future. The future of our planet will be in the hands of young people from India, China, Brazil, Mexico, and many other rising countries.

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Handong Wei

This book completely changes my impression about India. Its ...

Reviewed in the United States on May 25, 2017

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This book completely changes my impression about India.

Its future is promising but it has so many problems to solve.

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Dash Dhakshinamoorthy

India through the eyes of her young

Reviewed in the United States on September 2, 2017

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Interesting look at India through the eyes of her young. Seven stories tries to weave the aspiring generation, its politics and what holds India back..

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PULINC

Certainly, One Readable Version the Actual Narrative

Reviewed in India on October 21, 2018

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Falling short of true literature, sadly; the novelist perhaps did not mean or set out to present a rounded delivery relative to the promise held out by the evolving narrative on the ground. Don't know when we will get to read a novelist who does not mean to kind of dumb down the challenge of the variegated and unconventional possibilities in the larger picture by regressively appealing to, and focusing eloquently and smugly, in the name of liberalism and keenness of observation, on images and ideas that society is trying to outgrow.
Production of the book however felt and looked very nice, except that the type setting could perhaps have been a little improved

Mayur Kothavale

Grippingly and very optimistic stories of Indian youths

Reviewed in India on April 9, 2018

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Quite stimulating and encouraging stories of of Generation Z ( author called them as noonday children). Gives lot of hopes that India can shine with grit and determination of marginalized and India's young folks

jenny

a snapshot of india

Reviewed in Canada on March 28, 2016

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the author is showing the social customs that rule the lives of modern men and woman. it allows us to see a broader picture o f the obstactes they face in a society still dominated by disfunctional government programs in itheir struggles to live a modern life.

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Five Stars

Reviewed in India on May 4, 2017

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Great book!

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Good

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