Averting the Apocalypse: Social Movements in India TodayDuke University Press, 20/02/1990 - 476 من الصفحات There are two Indias: the caste and class elite who hold all power and make up 10 to 15 percent of the population, and everyone else. Averting the Apocalypse is about everyone else. Arthur Bonner, a former New York Times reporter with long experience as a foreign correspondent in Asia, conducted interviews over many months while traveling almost 20,000 miles within India seeking out the underclass and social activists who together are beginning to mobilize for social change at the bottom of Indian society. Working in areas torn by violence, Bonner offers a terrifyingly accurate portrait of a society bloodied by decades of unequal social structure and the absence of a civil society and political mechanism capable of responding to the exploitation of the poor and weak. Bonner finds that India’s inability or refusal to address its debilitating social structure may be the precursor to an apocalyptic social upheaval unless heed is paid to the social movements that his first-hand investigation reveals. |
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... talk of licensing prostitutes and making them sub- mit to a medical examination . Someone said on television when a com- modity is offered to the public , the seller should see it is safe and pure . He was saying women are commodities ...
... talk of licensing prostitutes and making them sub- mit to a medical examination . Someone said on television when a com- modity is offered to the public , the seller should see it is safe and pure . He was saying women are commodities ...
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... talk to them about themselves , and they're happy to find somebody who'll listen to them : someone who is their own . This is a place to talk without men around . " " Chandrabella is known in all the slums and working - class areas ...
... talk to them about themselves , and they're happy to find somebody who'll listen to them : someone who is their own . This is a place to talk without men around . " " Chandrabella is known in all the slums and working - class areas ...
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... talk to other men . They're also jealous when a wife earns money . But I have to talk with own- ers : I can't avoid other men . But now my husband treats me better : he sees other people respect me . Once women have something they can ...
... talk to other men . They're also jealous when a wife earns money . But I have to talk with own- ers : I can't avoid other men . But now my husband treats me better : he sees other people respect me . Once women have something they can ...
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A Longing for Freedom | 1 |
A Missed Tryst | 8 |
The Rich and the Poor | 19 |
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