About the Book: Looking Away: Inequality Prejudice And Indifference In New India
This feeble blemished light, this dawn mangled by night, This is not the morning
we had all so longed for… -Faiz Ahmed Faiz
In the two decades since the early 1990s, when India confirmed its allegiance
to the Free Market, more of its citizens have become marginalized than ever
before, and society has become more sharply riven than ever.
In Looking Away, Harsh Mander ranges wide to record and analyse the many
different fault lines which crisscross Indian society today.
There is increasing prosperity among the middle classes, but