Thursday, November 21, 2013

The Beautiful and the Damned: A Portrait of the New India - Siddartha Deb

To be sure, India is one of the easiest places in the world to see the dichotomy of society into rich and poor.
This book wanders around this dichotomy in a pondering and not so orderly fashion. Aside from pointing out the differences, I could not find much of a point to this book.

That is not to say it isn't interesting. Deb introduces you to charaters so colorful, they sound like fiction. They are probably not the average people a westerner would run into, which makes them fascinating to me.

Verdict: Read it - good time pass.

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