Jaleel, Muzamil, et al;
People Unlike Us: The India that is Invisible
HarperCollins Publishers India, 2001, 214 pages
ISBN 8172234279, 9788172234270
topics: | india | sociology | essays
Muzamil Jaleel: two villages along the line of control in Kashmir Sagarika Ghose: history of a sati in a lost village at the back of the north wind in Uttar Pradesh. Randhir Khare: tribal village in Jhabua, deep Madhya Pradesh, where people live by their own rules forgotten by mainstream society. Ajit Kumar Jha: the caste conflict in Bihar, Sankarshan Thakur: the tragic star-crossed tale of the hanging of a Jat girl and a Chamar girl, too grim in the end to be the stuff of romance because unlike Romeo and Juliet neither side wiped their eyes and resolved that it would never happen again. Vijay Jung Thapa : the tale of a maid in Delhi punny title ‘Maid in India’ . Meenal Baghel: the backwash of the Orissa cyclone Siddhartha Deb: on the alienation of people in the northeast from the rest of the country