Authors & Asia: The End of Karma: Hope and Fury Among India’s Young
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A penetrating, personal look at contemporary India—the world’s largest democracy at a moment of transition.
Somini Sengupta emigrated from Calcutta to California as a young child in 1975. Returning thirty years later as the bureau chief for The New York Times, she found a vastly different country: one defined as much by aspiration and possibility—at least by the illusion of possibility—as it is by the structures of sex and caste. The End of Karma is an exploration of this new India through the lens of young people from different worlds: a woman who becomes a Maoist rebel; a brother charged for the murder of his sister, who had married the “wrong” man; a woman who opposes her family and hopes to become a police officer. Driven by aspiration—and thwarted at every step by state and society—they are making new demands on India’s democracy for equality of opportunity, dignity for girls, and civil liberties. Sengupta spotlights these stories of ordinary men and women, weaving together a groundbreaking portrait of a country in turmoil.
Sengupta’s acclaimed book, The End of Karma: Hope and Fury Among India's Young, will be available for purchase and signing after the event.
Schedule
6:30 pm | Registration
7:00 pm | Program
Related Links
The New York Times: ‘The End of Karma,’ by Somini Sengupta
NPR: In 'The End Of Karma,' Young Indians Work To Overcome Their Past
The Wall Street Journal: Book Review: ‘The End of Karma’ by Somini Sengupta
About the Speaker
Somini Sengupta, a George Polk Award–winning journalist, covers the United Nations for The New York Times, for which she was previously the bureau chief in Dakar and New Delhi. As a foreign correspondent she has reported from a Himalayan glacier, a Congo River ferry, the streets of Baghdad and Mumbai and many places in between. Sengupta lives in New York City.
Chevron, ConocoPhillips, ExxonMobil, and United Airlines are presenting sponsors of Business & Policy programs, with lead support from BP America, and East West Bank. Generous funding also provided by the Friends of Business & Policy at Asia Society Texas Center, a premier group of individuals and organizations committed to bringing the best in public programming. This program is presented in collaboration with World Affairs Council of Greater Houston.
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Asia Society Texas Center 1370 Southmore Blvd Houston, TX 77004