A personal, narrative work of journalism and cultural analysis, The beautiful and the damned examines Indias many contradictions through five individual perspectives.--Publishers description. An incisive portrait of globalized India is based on the authors uncover work for The Guardian, during which he worked at a Delhi call center and traveled throughout the subcontinent, observing its cultural contradictions and the human cost of monumental changes. By the author of The Point of Return. 40,000 first printing. An incisive portrait of globalized India is based on the authors undercover work for The Guardian, during which he worked at a Delhi call center and traveled throughout the subcontinent, observing its cultural contradictions and the human cost of monumental changes.
