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A penetrating personal look at contemporary India - a snapshot of the world's largest democracy at a moment of transition.The End of Karma explores India through the lens of young people from different worlds: a Maoist rebel; a woman killed because she married the 'wrong' man; a teenage girl who needles her dad to let her become a police officer...

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A penetrating personal look at contemporary India - a snapshot of the world's largest democracy at a moment of transition.The End of Karma explores India through the lens of young people from different worlds: a Maoist rebel; a woman killed because she married the 'wrong' man; a teenage girl who needles her dad to let her become a police officer...
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Somini Sengupta emigrated from Calcutta as a child in 1975 and grew up in California. Returning thirty years later to India as the first Indian-American bureau chief for The New York Times she found a vastly different country: one defined as much by aspiration - at least by its illusion - as by the strictures of sex and caste.