The beautiful and the damned : a portrait of the new India
/ Siddhartha Deb
- 1st American ed.
- New York : Faber and Faber, Inc. , 2011.
- 253 p. ; 22 cm.
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.
A personal, narrative work of journalism and cultural analysis, The beautiful and the damned examines India's many contradictions through five individual perspectives.