Midnight's Borders

A People's History of Modern India

De: Suchitra Vijayan

Narrado por: Sunny Patel

Sharing borders with six countries and spanning a geography that extends from Pakistan to Myanmar, India is the world's largest democracy and second most populous country. It is also the site of the world's biggest crisis of statelessness, as it strips citizenship from hundreds of thousands of its people - especially those living in disputed border regions. Suchitra Vijayan traveled India's vast land border to explore how these populations live, and document how even places just few miles apart can feel like entirely different countries.

In this stunning work of narrative reportage, we hear from those whose stories are never told: from children playing a cricket match in no-man's-land, to an elderly man living in complete darkness after sealing off his home from the floodlit border; from a woman who fought to keep a military bunker off of her land, to those living abroad who can no longer find their family history in India.

With profound empathy and a novelistic eye for detail, Vijayan brings us face to face with the brutal legacy of colonialism, state violence, and government corruption. The result is a gripping, urgent dispatch from a modern India in crisis, and the full and vivid portrait of the country we've long been missing.

©2020 Suchitra Vijayan (P)2021 Tantor

EXELLENT

I highly recommend this book.
So many fine details.
India is an amazing country with so much potential.
There is a great future for its people.
The narrator, Sunny Patel, did an excellent job.
My thanks to all involved, JK

Brilliant book.

Expertly written. This book is a must-read no matter who you are. Grateful to have come across it.

Gripping

The detail in this book is remarkable. I had never truly stopped to consider this issue previously and I can humbly say that this gripping and harrowing book opened my eyes. This is essential for anyone who cares.