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India Becoming: A Portrait of Life in Modern India (9781594488191): Akash Kapur: Books. Impressively lucid and searching . . . In his clarity, sympathy and impeccably sculpted prose, Kapur often summons the spirit of V.S. Naipaul. —Pico Iyer, Time“A fascinating look at the transformation of India, with broader lessons on the upside and downside of progress.”—Booklist (starred)“[A] Lively, anecdotal look at the people who have been vastly changed by the entrepreneurial explosion in India. . . . An honest, conflicted glimpse of a country.”—KirkusThis is a remarkably absorbing account of an India in transition - full of challenges and contradictions, but also of expectations, hope, and ultimately optimism.-Amartya SenA wonderful writer: a courageously clear-eyed observer, an astute listener, a masterful portraitist, and a gripping storyteller. Kapur's voice is as sure and as intimate as his subject is chaotic and immense, and he proves himself the perfect guide to the enthralling promise and the terrifying menace of a society in the throes of colossal, epochal, all-encompassing change.-Philip Gourevitch, author of We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Your FamiliesMarvelous . . . Kapur shows how the old rural cycle of the south Indian village depicted and romanticized by R. K. Narayan is fracturing and breaking apart to reveal a very new, more unstable world where the old certainties are disappearing and everything is up for grabs. Sharp-eyed, insightful, skillfully sketched and beautifully written, India Becoming is the remarkable debut of a distinctive new talent.-William Dalrymple, author of Nine Lives: In Search of the Sacred in Modern IndiaAkash Kapur lives in and writes out of an India that few writers venture into. Curious, suspicious of received wisdom, and intellectually resourceful, [Kapur is] one of the most reliable observers of the New India.-Pankaj Mishra, author of Temptations of the West: How to Be Modern in India, Pakistan, Tibet, and BeyondThrough a series of deft character sketches, Akash Kapur captures the contradictions of life in modern India-between city and country, technology and aesthetics, development and the environment, greed and selflessness, individual fulfillment and community obligation. His writing is fresh and vivid; his perspective empathetic and appealingly non-judgmental.-Ramachandra Guha, author of India after GandhiBeautifully written . . . Akash Kapur celebrates the gains and mourns the losses, conveying a complex story through the ups and downs of the lives of some fascinating individual women and men.-Kwame Anthony Appiah, author of Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of StrangersIndia today is in the midst of profound change and Akash Kapur captures the impact of that change on the lives of ordinary Indians with a narrative that avoids all clichés, platitudes, and simplifications.-Gurcharan Das, author of India Unbound
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