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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 also a corresponding intolerance for the less fortunate. Poverty and homelessness are also on the rise-both in urban and rural settings- but not only has the state abandoned its responsibility to provide for those afflicted, the middle class, too, now avoids even the basic impulses of sharing. And with the sharp Rightward turn in politics, minority communities are under serious threat-their very status as citizens in question-as a belligerent, monolithic idea of the nation takes the place of an inclusive, tolerant one. However, as Harsh Mander points out, what most stains society today is the erosion in the imperative for sympathy, both at the state and individual levels, a crumbling that is principally at the base of the vast inequities which afflict India. Exhaustive in its scope, impassioned in its arguments, and rigorous in its scholarship, Looking Away is a sobering checklist of all the things we must collectively get right if India is to become the country that was promised, in equal measure, to all its citizens.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51066020364561,"sku":"NIN9789385288456","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52122540441873,"sku":"NLS9789385288456","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9385288458.jpg?v=1750808735"},{"product_id":"between-memory-and-forgetting-massacre-and-the-modi-years-in-gujarat-book-harsh-mander-9789382579731","title":"Between Memory and Forgetting:Massacre and the Modi Years in Gujarat","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51066718748945,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51066721599761,"sku":"NIN9789382579731","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9382579737.jpg?v=1750775395"},{"product_id":"burning-pyres-mass-graves-and-a-state-that-failed-its-people-indias-covid-traged-book-harsh-mander-9789354475436","title":"Burning Pyres, Mass Graves and a State That Failed Its People: India’s COVID Tragedy","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe summer of 2021 saw a massive rise in the number of infections and deaths from\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCovid-19 in India. 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Mander traces the causes for these shortages to the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ecriminal neglect of public health in India, a situation made worse under the Narendra\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eModi government, leading to the extortion of a beleaguered population by everyone\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003efrom suppliers of oxygen cylinders to pharma billionaires. He holds the state culpable\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003efor indulging in pageantry-with the PM advertising himself as a messiah-when the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ecountry needed to brace for the impact of the second wave.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCombining ground reports with hard data and first-hand knowledge, Mander chronicles\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe greatest humanitarian catastrophe India has faced in a century, the effects of which\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ewill be felt for decades. 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