Economic offences

A Compendium of Crimes in Prose and Verse

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ISBN:

9780198090328

Publication date:

23/07/2013

Hardback

184 pages

216.0x140.0mm

Price: 595.00 INR

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ISBN:

9780198090328

Publication date:

23/07/2013

Hardback

184 pages

216.0x140.0mm

S. Subramanian

Suitable for: General readers as well as India-watchers and scholars of South Asian studies

Rights:  World Rights

S. Subramanian

Description

This book is a satirical social commentary on contemporary India, and it employs, via parody, the literature of one’s childhood as a means to exploring the society in which we live.    In the last decade or so, elements of India’s elite population have come to consider it a matter of legitimate urgency for the country to be recognized, in quick order, as a superpower, a permanent member of the United Nations’ Security Council, and Number One in the international cricket ratings. But are these, really, the things that ought to go into the making of the Idea of India?   Economic Offences affords the reader an opportunity to wonder if the most patriotic ambition an Indian citizen can entertain for the country resides in the notion of ‘India Shining’, or ‘India Rising’, or some similar mentally undemanding celebration. 

S. Subramanian

S. Subramanian

Features

  • A first-of-its-kind satirical social commentary on contemporary India
  • Includes around 37 line drawings complementing the text
  • Innovative approach to themes such as caste, pseudosecularism, minorityism, poverty, tradition, modernity, postcoloniality liberalization, corruption, competition, nationalism, and NRI-ism

S. Subramanian

S. Subramanian

Description

This book is a satirical social commentary on contemporary India, and it employs, via parody, the literature of one’s childhood as a means to exploring the society in which we live.    In the last decade or so, elements of India’s elite population have come to consider it a matter of legitimate urgency for the country to be recognized, in quick order, as a superpower, a permanent member of the United Nations’ Security Council, and Number One in the international cricket ratings. But are these, really, the things that ought to go into the making of the Idea of India?   Economic Offences affords the reader an opportunity to wonder if the most patriotic ambition an Indian citizen can entertain for the country resides in the notion of ‘India Shining’, or ‘India Rising’, or some similar mentally undemanding celebration. 

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