{"product_id":"looking-away","title":"Looking Away  -","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn the two decades since the early 1990s, when \u003cbr\u003e\nindia confirmed its allegiance to the free market, more of its citizens \u003cbr\u003e\nhave become marginalized than ever before and society has become more \u003cbr\u003e\nsharply riven than ever. In looking away, harsh mander ranges wide to \u003cbr\u003e\nrecord and analyse the many different fault lines which crisscross \u003cbr\u003e\nindian society today. There is increasing prosperity among the middle \u003cbr\u003e\nclasses but also a corresponding intolerance for the less fortunate. \u003cbr\u003e\nPoverty and homelessness are also on the rise -both in urban and rural \u003cbr\u003e\nsettings - but not only has the state abandoned its responsibility to \u003cbr\u003e\nprovide for those afflicted, the middle class, too, now avoids even the \u003cbr\u003e\nbasic impulses of sharing. And with the sharp rightward turn in \u003cbr\u003e\npolitics, minority communities are under serious threat -their very \u003cbr\u003e\nstatus as citizens in question -as a belligerent, monolithic idea of the\u003cbr\u003e\n nation takes the place of an inclusive, tolerant one. However, as harsh\u003cbr\u003e\n mander points out, what most stains society today is the erosion in the\u003cbr\u003e\n imperative for sympathy, both at the state and individual levels, a \u003cbr\u003e\ncrumbling that is principally at the base of the vast inequities which \u003cbr\u003e\nafflict india. Exhaustive in its scope, impassioned in its arguments and\u003cbr\u003e\n rigorous in its scholarship, looking away is a sobering checklist of \u003cbr\u003e\nall the things we must collectively get right if india is to become the \u003cbr\u003e\ncountry that was promised, in equal measure, to all its citizens.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harsh Mander","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44229482283068,"sku":"9789385288005","price":247.5,"currency_code":"PKR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0714\/7706\/7836\/files\/looking-away-9789385288005.jpg?v=1776778854","url":"https:\/\/libertybooksstore.myshopify.com\/products\/looking-away","provider":"LibertyBooksStore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}