What went wrong?: Why hasn't having more made people happier?

Seabrook, Jeremy

Pantheon Books

Jeremy Seabrook tells a horrifying tale of Modern Britain and the misery which materialism has produced, giving warning to America, which is heading down the same path.

Book by Blackwell, Trevor, Seabrook, Jeremy

A World Still to Win: The Reconstruction of the Post-War Working Class

Politics & Social Sciences

Blackwell, Trevor

Social Sciences

Faber&Faber

What went wrong?: Working people and the ideals of the labour movement

V. Gollancz

Mother and Son: An Autobiography

Littlehampton Book Services Ltd.

Working-class childhood

History

Europe

Gollancz

Life and Labour in a Bombay Slum

Quartet Books Ltd.

'Seabrook has chosen to describe an India so particular, so far off the beaten track, and so actual that, in his painstaking reconstructions of scenes, his careful listening and reporting of people's words, and his lucid exposition of present-day realities, he succeeds where so many have failed . . . A powerful book, and a clear-eyed account presented with sympathy, insight and conviction. Only those who truly love India can look at her with such a penetrating gaze.' Resurgence Images of India as a land of ancient and unchanging tradition persist in the popular Western imagination and when India appears in the Western media, it is frequently as the site of communal violence, atrocities against women, casteism, backwardness, poverty and disease. Challenging stereotypic images, Notes from Another India is a journey through an India rarely seen by the visitor. Part-travel writing and part-reportage, by a journalist who knows the country well, Notes from Another India explores positive initiatives taken by the people's movements and grassroots organisations in present-day India. Evoking place, both rural and urban, and drawing on the personal accounts of activists, development practitioners and others from across the country, Jeremy Seabrook provides the general reader, the traveller and all those interested in India with a unique and positive insight to contemporary India.

Notes From Another India

Business & Money

Economics

Pluto Press

When India appears in the Western media, it does so principally as the site of communal violence, atrocities against women, casteism, backwardness, poverty and disease. Other images also come through. India is popularly perceived as a land of ancient and unchanging tradition and, in Britain, the myth of the days of the Raj persists in the media. This book is a record of a journey exploring some of the positive initiatives taken by the people's movements and non-governmental organisations in present-day India to counter this image in the West. It is also a celebration of the alternatives in the popular movements, resistance to mega-projects and to environmental and developmental violence. Written by a journalist who knows India well, "Notes From Another India" is both a guide and a signpost to these alternative developments. It places in context the rise of fundamentalism in the country and analyzes why such a response should have occurred at this time. Through evocations and descriptions of place - from degraded village to city slum - and diverse accounts in the words of the people themselves, it provides the general reader, the traveller and all those interested in India with a positive insight to the country.

Asia

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