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Pankaj Mishra's "Run and Hide"

LA Review of Books

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How Does This Transformation Affect the Inner Life of People?

Many people of my generation have made this extraordinary transition from extreme poverto extreme destitution to lives of unimaginable prosperity. And what i really want to know is, what effects does this transformation have on the inner lives of people? You can see very clearly that here are people getting richer and richer. They go to an engineering college, which incidentally produces a lot of people occupying senior positions in silicon valley companies. For many indians, this college, this engineering institute, is the portal to the world's richness. Once they get into it, their future is assured. A future of stability, a future of prosperity, is guaranteed to them. So i think we are looking at tenages essentially

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