{"product_id":"a-western-journalist-in-india-the-ferengis-columns","title":"A Western Journalist in India - The Ferengi's Columns","description":"\u003cp\u003eAuthor: Francois Gautier\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Har-Anand\u003cbr\u003eYear: 2001\u003cbr\u003eLanguage: English\u003cbr\u003ePages: 176\u003cbr\u003eISBN\/UPC (if available): 8124107955\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e Description\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis collection of articles represent the story of author's awakening to what feels is the true India, beyond the clichTs and prejudices the West seems to have inherited from colonial times. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndia, for a foreign journalist, is a vast, diverse, difficult and often contradictory country. Most foreign correspondents are posted her for three, or a maximum of five years, too little a time to grasp the subtleties of the subcontinent.  As a result, western correspondents, however talented and well-meaning they are, often leave with the same opinion with which they had arrived, having meanwhile fled their readers with near identical stories: How Christian are persecuted in India, the rise of the 'dangerous' RSS, the Human Right Abuses of the army in Kashmir, or some side feature on Medha Patkar and the Narmada Dam. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe author considers himself lucky: he came to India he had just turned nineteen, an age where the mind has not yet settled in hard and frozen patterns and was able to discover the country through more than twenty years of reporting from Srinagar to Kanyakumari.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eContents\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCHAPTER I\u003cbr\u003eAyodhya\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER II\u003cbr\u003eKashmir : A Dead-End and a Solution\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER III\u003cbr\u003eThe Christians : A Minority in Moral Majority\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER IV\u003cbr\u003eThe Hindus : A Majority in Moral Majority\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER V\u003cbr\u003eThe Indian Media : A Hostile Force\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER VI\u003cbr\u003eThe (Unfriendly) Neighbours in Asia\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER VII\u003cbr\u003eThe West and India\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER VIII\u003cbr\u003eExamples Not to Follow\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER IX\u003cbr\u003eThe False Gods\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER X\u003cbr\u003eThe Great Indian Myths\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER XI\u003cbr\u003eThe Rot of Bollywood\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER XII\u003cbr\u003eIndia : Everything That It should not be\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER XIII\u003cbr\u003eThe Hidden Treasures\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER XIV\u003cbr\u003eThe Renaissance of India\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The India Club","offers":[{"title":"Francois Gautier \/ Har-Anand \/ Hardcover","offer_id":68153697796464,"sku":"8162","price":26.75,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1041\/5203\/9792\/files\/8162.jpg?v=1793912796","url":"https:\/\/marketcalvexa.shop\/products\/a-western-journalist-in-india-the-ferengis-columns","provider":"Alderstone House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}