Defragmenting India
Sage Publications India Pvt Ltd (Verlag)
978-81-321-0656-2 (ISBN)
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Defragmenting India is an account of the various fault lines of Indian society quivering in the temblors that the 2002 Hindu-Muslim communal riots of Gujarat sent across the nation. The riots form the dramatic backdrop to the travelogue narrative of a motorbike trip of the author and his friend.
The book maps the urban consciousness of India by juxtaposing lives, issues and situations of educated and the uneducated, craftsman and conservationist, teacher and businessman, daughters and drunks from small towns and non-metro cities of India.
The narrative uses oral history, folklore, local legends, historical events, research papers, imaginative speculations, biographic anecdotes and graphic reportage in an elliptical and poetic narrative to weave a picture of a country in flux.
Harish Nambiar is a journalist with Reuters in Mumbai. He has been a mainstream English journalist in India since 1990, having begun his career with the Times of India group. He has worked with the Indian Express, the television channel CNBC, and The Telegraph, Kolkata. In the course of his career as a reporter he has covered the 1992–93 communal riots and the serial blasts in Bombay. He has been responsible for several exposés in his stint as an investigative reporter with the Indian Express, specializing in economic offences, including the union housing scam that the Supreme Court of India took up. In between jobs, he has had a stint as a lecturer on English Literature, teaching poetry appreciation and the rise of the novel as a form. He has also taught two academic terms as a visiting lecturer of journalism.
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The Moor in the Idol Junkyard
Destinies, Dynasties, and Upstart Pickpockets
The Soldier who Annexed Three States for Three Daughters
′Our Shiv Sena′
′Dangerous Like My English Teacher′
The Open Circle
Do Children Smell Fear in Sweat?
Cardamom Cloud over Coffee
The Instinct to Upgrade
A Moses on his Harley Davidson
Arabs, Jains, Mammon and Osama
A Drunken RSS Man in Jassema
Invisible Migrations, Furtive Bleedings
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 24.2.2012 |
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| Verlagsort | New Delhi |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 139 x 215 mm |
| Gewicht | 280 g |
| Themenwelt | Reisen ► Reiseberichte ► Asien |
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| ISBN-10 | 81-321-0656-3 / 8132106563 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-81-321-0656-2 / 9788132106562 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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