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.
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The End of Karma brilliantly opens the door into the world of the striving young men and women of the new India as they try to shed India s past and invent their own future. Somini Sengupta s chosen characters are so vividly drawn and so sensitively reported. --Tina Brown"
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 the country today. --Suketu Mehta, author of Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found"
In fluent, conversational style, Somini Sengupta asks that burning question of contemporary India 'What happens to a dream deferred?' by looking at the trajectories of seven lives. The resulting book is compelling, moving, necessary and, above all, truthful. --Neel Mukherjee, author of The Lives of Others
"...remarkable new book..." --The Observer New Review
"[Somini Sengupta] interweaves data, first-hand accounts and archival research to great effect." --The Economist, Best Books of 2016
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. She was born in Calcutta and lives in New York.
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