Overview

When India appears in the Western media, it does so principally as the site of communal violence, atrocities against women, casteism, backwardness, poverty and disease. Other images also come through. India is popularly perceived as a land of ancient and unchanging tradition and, in Britain, the myth of the days of the Raj persists in the media. This book is a record of a journey exploring some of the positive initiatives taken by the people's movements and non-governmental organisations in present-day India to counter this image in the West. It is also a celebration of the alternatives in the popular movements, resistance to mega-projects and to environmental and developmental violence. Written by a journalist who knows India well, ""Notes From Another India"" is both a guide and a signpost to these alternative developments. It places in context the rise of fundamentalism in the country and analyzes why such a response should have occurred at this time. Through evocations and descriptions of place - from degraded village to city slum - and diverse accounts in the words of the people themselves, it provides the general reader, the traveller and all those interested in India with a positive insight to the country.""

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'Seabrook has chosen to describe an India so particular, so far off the beaten track, and so actual that, in his painstaking reconstructions of scenes, his careful listening and reporting of people's words, and his lucid exposition of present-day realities, he succeeds where so many have failed ... A powerful book, and a clear-eyed account presented with sympathy, insight and conviction. Only those who truly love India can look at her with such a penetrating gaze.' --Resurgence

Seabrook has chosen to describe an India so far off the beaten track and so actual that, in his painstaking reconstructions of scenes his careful listening and reporting of people's words, and his lucid exposition of present-day realities, he succeeds where so many have failed...A powerful book, and justifiably an angry one too - a clear-eyed account presented with sympathy, insight and conviction. --Resurgence 'Seabrook has chosen to describe an India so particular, so far off the beaten track, and so actual that, in his painstaking reconstructions of scenes, his careful listening and reporting of people's words, and his lucid exposition of present-day realities, he succeeds where so many have failed ... A powerful book, and a clear-eyed account presented with sympathy, insight and conviction. Only those who truly love India can look at her with such a penetrating gaze.' --Resurgence

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Jeremy Seabrook (1939-2024) wrote on inequality, poverty and the oppressed in Britain and across the Global South for over half a century. His articles were featured in the Guardian, The Times and the Independent. He has written plays for stage, TV and the theatre, some in collaboration with his close friend, Michael O’Neill. His many books include The Song of the Shirt and Cut Out: Living Without Welfare. In 2023 he published his memoirs, Private Worlds.

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