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Snigdha Poonam is a journalist based in New Delhi. Her work has appeared in the Guardian, the New Your Times, and Granta. She currently reports on national affairs at the Hindustan Times. She won the 2017 Journalist of Change award for a work of reportage that appeared on Huffington Post. Dreamers mostrar mais is her first book. mostrar menos
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India

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This book by Snigdha Poonam is excellent. She has invested considerable time in meeting India's younger generation and following their stories.

She divided the book into three sections - No Plan B, The Angry, The Scammers. I have not written the exact titles of the sections but I hope you get the idea. Then, she followed up with the stories of the various people she met. The epilogue is excellent.

Why do I like the book? Her book portrayed India's youth's feelings of restlessness, significance, uncertainty, and ambition..

She stayed away from any criticism of our politicians, but her opinions and fears seep through in her words.

The stories bring the book to life more than any scholarly analysis does.

Read the book.
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RajivC | 1 outra resenha | Jul 6, 2023 |
This is excellent; and through her portrait of young Indians seeking to fulfil their dreams, Snigdha Poonam asks an important question - how on Earth will India provide not just the jobs, but the aspirational lifestyles that its young people not only aspire to but demand? Throughout this portrait of 7 groups of young people and their chosen routes to their "dream" the overwhelming themes are self belief and optimism. You can't help but root for Moin Khan as he progresses from consumer of cheap English classes to teacher of them to, as he hopes, to English language lesson entrepreneur. You can't help but admire the founders of Witty Feed as they aim for world media domination from the unpromising roots of Indore - they haven't got there yet, but they are doing pretty well, and fulfilling the cult like devotion of their young acolytes. You can even feel some sympathy for the call centre scammers - if Americans are so dumb as to give away their passwords to people pretending to be from the IRS then how superior can they actually be?

Its a wild ride that Poonam goes on, sometimes scary, sometimes hilarious. Its scary when bombs are lobbed at the very impressive Student Union leader Richa Singh, its funny when, no matter what she does, she can't land a call centre job (perhaps her "40% English" isn't good enough?) its poignant when, called on to be an emergency judge at a beauty pageant (someone doesn't turn up) she sees the desperation to leave her rural village and boring life in a contestants eyes and is as kind and encouraging as possible, and pathetic (at least to my eyes) when she spends a night with the Cow Protection Patrol

Really this shouldn't be subtitled "How Young Indians Are Changing The World" because although some undoubtedly are, its not Ms Poonam's subjects. A better title might have been How Young Indians Want To Change The World. It's really very good
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Opinionated | 1 outra resenha | Sep 22, 2018 |
An interesting essay that gives a glimpse of life and morals in India. I liked it, but it didn't go into enough depth for me to really understand Lady Singham and her motives. Some more detail would have made this an extraordinary read. Worth checking out if you're not from India, though, as it unveils a different world.
 
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AngelaJMaher | Jun 17, 2018 |

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Avaliação
3.8
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3
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