The Passenger. India / photography, Gaia Squarci ; illustrations, Edoardo Massa ; infographics and cartography, Pietro Buffa ; editorial consultant, Gioia Guerzoni.
Publisher:
Iperborea/Europa Editions,
Copyright Date:
2021
Description:
192 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and discography.
Contents:
India's Existential Challenge / Prem Shankar Jha -- In/visible: A Woman's Place in India / Tishani Doshi -- Rocket on a Bicycle / Susmita Mohanty -- The Monsoon: A Gamble on the Rains / The Economist -- Ogo Shuncho! / Anindya Roy -- Holding Back the Night: Secularism Under Siege / Julia Lauter -- Against Caste / Arundhati Roy -- Cut to Switzerland! / Juhi Saklani -- The Blood of Tulips / Mirza Waheed -- In the Ring with India's Most Powerful Woman / Sonia Faleiro -- There's No Such Thing as Indian Literature / Arunava Sinha.
Summary:
Survived to the present day, a vague association with ideas of peace, spiritualism, the magic of the fakirs. Constantly reframed and mythicised by Westerners fleeing their supposedly rationalist societies, India continues to fascinate with its millennia-old history, its shrines on every street corner, its ancient beliefs and rituals, and its unique linguistic and cultural diversity. Today this picture is mixed with that of a society that is changing at a frenetic pace and is at the forefront of the digital revolution--a "shining India" of dynamic, fast-expanding megalopolises. Yet, these success stories coexist with the daily plight of the large section of India's population without access to drinking water or a toilet, with a rural economy (still employing the majority of India's over 1.3 billion inhabitants) that depends on monsoons for irrigation and is threatened by climate change. The greatest democratic experiment ever attempted, India remains plagued by one of the vilest forms of class and racial discrimination, the caste system, which is being exacerbated by the Hindu nationalist regime currently in power.
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