The End of Karma - Somini Sengupta, W. W. Norton & Company

&quot,How India's youth are trading fatalism and karma for free will and higher expectations, by a former New York Times New Delhi bureau chief who interweaves data, first-hand accounts and archival research to great effect.&quot, Best Books of 2016, The Economist This &quot,remarkable new book&quot, (The Observer) is an exploration of the new India through the lens of young people from different worlds: a woman who becomes a Maoist rebel, a brother charged for the murder of his sister who had married the &quot,wrong&quot, man, and a woman who opposes her family and hopes to become a police officer. They are making new demands on India's democracy for equality of opportunity, dignity for girls and civil liberties. Somini Sengupta spotlights these stories of ordinary people, weaving together a portrait of a country in turmoil.