{"title":"Aparna Karthikeyan","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"woof-book-aparna-karthikeyan-9789395767194","title":"Woof!","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Book\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAN ADVENTURE STORY ABOUT DOGS ON THE BEACH.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt's just before the Mumbai monsoon when the Don and her gang chance upon a mysterious package on the beach, only to find a little puppy inside.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDon's annoyed, her gang is upset. A new puppy spells trouble.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor the dogs on the beach, life can be tough. And the new arrival has broken their life's rhythm. But soon they discover Shingmo the Seventh is actually a sliver of sunshine on the beach. 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She shares her home with her husband, daughter, plenty of books and two very important creatures-her dogs Puchu and Shingmo.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49745079107857,"sku":"NGR9789395767194","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51067783741713,"sku":"NIN9789395767194","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52502701867281,"sku":"NLS9789395767194","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9395767197.jpg?v=1751191625"},{"product_id":"cat-s-egg-book-aparna-karthikeyan-9788193654224","title":"Cat's Egg","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":50437877334289,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50437878841617,"sku":"GOR013951186","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/8193654226.jpg?v=1751159970"},{"product_id":"nine-rupees-an-hour-book-aparna-karthikeyan-9789395073233","title":"Nine Rupees an Hour","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the book\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTHIS MUCH-FETED BOK RETURNS IN A STRIKING, AL-NEW COVER  A NUANCED AND MUCH-NEDED REPORT FROM THE GROUND ON TAMIL NADU, AND INDED INDIA'S, ENDANGERED LIVELIHODS.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn a rapidly urbanising nation, rural India is being erased from the popular imagination. Through her five years of travelling across the villages of Tamil Nadu, Aparna Karthikeyan gets to know men and women who do exceptional-yet perfectly ordinary-things to earn a living. She documents, through ten of these stories, the transformations, aspirations and disruptions of the last twenty-five years. The people she meets force these questions of her, and her reader: What is the culture we seek to preserve? What will become of food security without farmers? How can 'development' exclude 833 million people?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIncluding interviews with journalist P. Sainath, musician T.M. Krishna and writer Bama, among others, Nine Rupees an Hour is a critical portrayal of the drastic and systematic erosion of traditional livelihoods.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese engaging narratives unravel a peoples' perspective of work and life, where creative beauty and human dignity merge to matter, even if their worth in market-obsessed economics is merely nine rupees an hour. 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