TY - BOOK AU - Deb,Siddhartha TI - The beautiful and the damned: a portrait of the new India SN - 9780865478732 (pbk.) : AV - DS480.853 .D3843 2011 PY - 2011/// CY - New York PB - Faber and Faber KW - India KW - Civilization KW - 21st century KW - Politics and government KW - Economic conditions KW - Social conditions N1 - The great Gatsby : a rich man in India -- Ghosts in the machine : the engineer's burden -- Red sorghum : farmers in the free market -- The factory : the permanent world of temporary workers -- The girl from F & B : women in the big city N2 - "A personal, narrative work of journalism and cultural analysis, The beautiful and the damned examines India's many contradictions through five individual perspectives."--Publisher's description ER -