Author: Eminent Contributors
Publisher: HarperCollins
Year: 2001
Language: English
Pages: 214
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8172234279
Description
Told with rare sensitivity, these stories bring out the alienation and the silent rage of people on the margins. These are stories about an India where little has changed, and where the playing fields are not, and can never be, level.
As we move into the twenty-first century, a look at the India we have no time for - the people we choose not to see, the places that are falling off the map, and the attitudes and mind-sets that remain unchanged. Told with a rare sensitivity, these stories bring out the alienation and the silent rage of people on the margins.
From the isolation of people in Kashmir and the North-east to the mind-set of a village that wants to convert an incident of sati into material gain; from the decimation of tribals to the continuance of upper-caste domination, these are stories about an India where little has changed, and where the playing fields are not, and never be, level. It is the story of an India where systems of patronage, caste domination, and of little or no accountability are still in place. It's the story of an India that either we don't see or don't want to see.
This book is third in the Contemporary Essays series by HarperCollins India, the first two being 'Guns and Yellow Roses - Essays on the Kargil War' and 'On the Abyss - Pakistan After the Coup'.