Defragmenting India: Riding a Bullet through the Gathering Storm

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Defragmenting India is an account of the various fault lines of Indian society narrated through the interactions between multitudes of small-town people, framed through the 2002 Hindu Muslim communal riots of Gujarat.xA0;The book maps the urban consciousness of India, spanning different spectrums of society, and highlights issues such as the relevance of religion in today s world and the effect of the communal upheavals on the attitudes of those who experience them. Author Harish Nambiar captures the undercurrents that flow through the life of a nation, community, city, families and individuals, simultaneously cutting across narrow divisive borders. Contents: Intimacies Remapped The Covered Trucks Manto Strikes An Iranian Exile in Sambhalpur Sense and Sensibility The Moor in the Idol Junkyard Destinies, Dynasties, and Upstart Pickpockets The Soldier who Annexed Three States for Three Daughters 'Our Shiv Sena' 'Dangerous Like My English Teacher' The Open Circle Do Children Smell Fear in Sweat? Cardamom Cloud over Coffee The Instinct to Upgrade A Moses on his Harley Davidson Arabs, Jains, Mammon and Osama A Drunken RSS Man in Jassema Invisible Migrations, Furtive Bleedings