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Better to Have Gone

Love, Death, and the Quest for Utopia

By: Akash Kapur

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Better to Have Gone

Love, Death, and the Quest for Utopia

By: Akash Kapur

It’s the late 1960s, and two lovers converge on an arid patch of earth in South India. John Walker is the handsome scion of a powerful East Coast American family. Diane Maes is a beautiful hippie from Belgium. They have come to build a new world—Auroville, an international utopian community for thousands of people. Their faith is strong, the future bright. So how do John and Diane end up dying two decades later, on the same day, on a cracked concrete floor in a thatch hut by a remote canyon? This is the mystery Akash Kapur sets out to solve in Better to Have Gone, and it carries deep personal resonance: Diane and John were the parents of Akash’s wife, Auralice. Akash and Auralice grew up in Auroville; like the rest of their community, they never really understood those deaths. In 2004, Akash and Auralice return to Auroville from New York, where they have been living with John’s family. As they reestablish themselves in the community, along with their two sons, they must confront the ghosts of those distant deaths. Slowly, they come to understand how the tragic individual fates of John and Diane intersected with the collective history of their town. --

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384

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Simon and Schuster

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1501132520

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9781501132520

India Becoming

A Portrait of Life in Modern India

By: Akash Kapur

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A Portrait of Life in Modern India

By: Akash Kapur

A New Republic Editors' and Writers' Pick 2012 A New Yorker Contributors' Pick 2012 A Newsweek "Must Read on Modern India" “For people who savored Katherine Boo’s Behind the Beautiful Forevers.”—Evan Osnos, newyorker.com From the author of Better To Have Gone, a portrait of the incredible change and economic development of modern India, and of social and national transformation there told through individual lives Raised in India, and educated in the U.S., Akash Kapur returned to India in 2003 to raise a family. What he found was an ancient country in transition. In search of the life that he and his wife want to lead, he meets an array of Indians who teach him much about the realities of this changed country: an old landowner sees his rural village destroyed by real estate developments, and crime and corruption breaking down the feudal authority; a 21-year-old single woman and a 35-year-old divorcee exploring the new cultural allowances for women; and a young gay man coming to terms with his sexual identity – something never allowed him a generation ago. As Akash and his wife struggle to find the right balance between growth and modernity and the simplicity and purity they had known from the Indian countryside a decade ago, they ultimately find a country that “has begun to dream.” But also one that may be moving away too quickly from the valuable ways in which it is different.

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338

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Penguin

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1594486530

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9781594486531

Conversations and Monologues

By: Akash Kapur

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Conversations and Monologues

By: Akash Kapur

Summing up six years of learning, writing, and growing, Conversations and Monologues is Akashs debut poetry collection. Spanning themes such as love, loss, apathy, and more, this book will take you to places that are happy, melancholic, and sometimes, just playfully absurd. So dig in and settle down for a series of conversations on joys, sorrows, and living.

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Partridge Publishing

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1482886936

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India Becoming

A Journey through a Changing Landscape

By: Akash Kapur

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A Journey through a Changing Landscape

By: Akash Kapur

India has changed dramatically in recent years, but what does all this change mean for the lives of ordinary Indians? In this gripping and often moving book, Akash Kapur follows a handful of men and women in the villages and small towns of South India as they confront the ups and downs of life in a nation in transition.

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Penguin UK

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8184756739

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Better to Have Gone

Better to Have Gone

India Becoming

India Becoming

Conversations and Monologues

Conversations and Monologues

Conversations and Monologues

Conversations and Monologues

India Becoming

India Becoming

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