Dom Moraes
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Out of God's Oven: Travels in a Fractured Land
Dom Moraes, Sarayu Srivasta
Despite all odds, it is often said, India holds together. Perhaps it does, the authors of this brilliantly perceptive examination of Indian society concede, but there are bitter truths that this uncertain success barely conceals. For, even after half a century of independence and the institution of democracy, India remains a deeply divided society, a “fractured land”. While the old inequities of caste and class persist, there are new challenges posed by the advent of extreme religious fundamentalism and an unabashedly consumerist culture.
