This volume collects seventeen stories of women and men who, simply because they were born poor, or a particular gender, or into a certain caste or religion, fell prey to the many atrocities and indignities endemic to contemporary India. Some resisted, survived, and soldier on. Some did not.
Lachmi Kaur lost almost all the male members of her family in the anti-Sikh riots of 1984. She then overcame despair to singlehandedly bring up her children and grandchildren with fierce love and pride. With great courage of conviction, Krishan Gopal, a Dalit man from Nimoda in Rajasthan,...
This volume collects seventeen stories of women and men who, simply because they were born poor, or a particular gender, or into a certain caste or...
This feeble blemished light, this dawn mangled by night, This is not the morning we had all so longed for... -Faiz Ahmed Faiz
In the two decades since the early 1990s, when India confirmed its allegiance to the Free Market, more of its citizens have become marginalized than ever before, and society has become more sharply riven than ever.
In Looking Away, Harsh Mander ranges wide to record and analyse the many different fault lines which crisscross Indian society today.
There is increasing prosperity among the middle classes, but also a corresponding intolerance for the less fortunate....
This feeble blemished light, this dawn mangled by night, This is not the morning we had all so longed for... -Faiz Ahmed Faiz
