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DESCRIPTION:KPFA Radio 94.1FM presents: \n\nSomini Sengupta \n"Hope and Fury Among 
 India's Young"\nHosted by Vijaya Nagarajan\n\nSomini Sengupta emigrated 
 from Calcutta as a child in 1975 and grew up in California. Returning 
 thirty years later to India as the first Indian-American bureau chief for 
 The New York Times, she found a vastly different country: one defined as 
 much by aspiration-at least by its illusion-as by the strictures of sex and 
 caste. The End of Karma explores this new India through the eyes of young 
 people from different worlds: a Maoist rebel; a woman killed because she 
 married the "wrong" man; a teenage girl who needles her father to let her 
 become a police officer. Driven by aspiration, thwarted by state and 
 society, the young are making new demands on India's democracy for equality 
 of opportunity, dignity for girls, and civil liberties. Sengupta 
 dramatically spotlights these stories of ordinary men and women, weaving 
 together a groundbreaking portrait of a land - one of the planet's largest 
 - in turmoil. \n\n"The End of Karma is the essential beginning for any 
 reader who wants to understand the future of the world's biggest democracy. 
 With meticulously researched, grippingly told stories about youth in 
 today's India, Sengupta's quest to understand her daughter's birthplace 
 seized me like no other book coming from that country today." - Suketu 
 Mehta, author of Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found\n\nSomini Sengupta is 
 a veteran foreign correspondent for The New York Times, and winner of the 
 prestigious 2003 George Polk Award for foreign reporting. \n \nProfessor 
 Vijaya Nagarajan teaches courses on Hinduism, Religion and Environment, 
 Spiritual Autobiography, and Community Internships. \n\nadvance tickets: 
 $12: T: 800-838-3006 or Books Inc, Pegasus (3 sites), Moe's, Walden Pond 
 Bookstore, Diesel a Bookstore, Mrs. Dalloway's  S.F. - Modern Times. $15 
 door, KPFA benefit   \nCo-sponsored by St. John's Presbyterian Church, 
 www.kpfa.org/events\n\n$12 advance, $15 door.\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2016/02/10/18782803.php
SUMMARY:Somini Sengupta: Hope & Fury Among India's Young
LOCATION:St. John's Presbyterian Church\n2727 College Avenue\nBerkeley, CA 94705
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2016/02/10/18782803.php
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