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Through 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 fulfilment and community obligation. His writing is fresh and vivid; his perspective, empathetic and appealingly non- judgemental. <br> -Ramachandra Guha, author of India after Gandhi <br> Beautifully 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. <br> -Kwame Anthony Appiah, author of Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers <br> India 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 clich?s, platitudes, and simplifications. <br> -Gurcharan Das, author of India Unbound <br> Akash Kapur is a w

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Akash Kapur is the former Letter from India columnist for the International Herald Tribune and the online edition of The New York Times. He has also written for The Atlantic, The Economist, Granta, The New Yorker, and The New York Times. He holds a B.A. in social anthropology from Harvard, and a doctorate in law from Oxford University, which he attended as a Rhodes scholar. He lives outside Pondicherry, in southern India.

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