Breaking through : India's stories of beating the odds on poverty
Material type: TextPublication details: New Delhi Rainlight 2015Description: xiii, 210 pISBN: 9788129134882Subject(s): Poor | IndiaDDC classification: 339.460954 Summary: If India is described in conflicting and exaggerated terms a growth miracle, yet a poverty stricken country. Breaking Through creates a more nuanced portrait of the nation. It presents an India that is at the cusp of change, attempting to emerge from poverty. In Breaking Through, this India is exemplified through individual, representational stories of innovation, endeavour, struggle and 'success'. We meet poor and orphaned Neelu, who becomes a serial house owner in the capital, health worker Santosh, who strives to meet her own health needs, penurious Nazma, who is concerned about the quality of her children's education, underprivileged entrepreneurs Shan and Dhan, who wrest the rich dividends of growth. These narratives highlight a complex journey. They present the roadblocks that hinder the entry of the poor into economic life (markets or credit and infrastructure or businesses governed by transparency) and obstruct their capacity to seize the basic entitlements of health, education and political participation. This makes social or economic transition difficult, circuitous and sometimes, rife with danger. Breaking Through reminds us that to look past these stories of struggle, energy and drive these narratives of people emerging from poverty is to miss the vibrancy and complexity of India and her growth story.Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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339.460954 CHA/P Povety and human wellbeing-the Indian context | 339.460954 JAG/P Poverty in India: the untold stories | 339.460954 MAL/A Agriculture and Rural Poverty | 339.460954 MEE/B Breaking through : India's stories of beating the odds on poverty | 339.460954 PER Perspectives on Poverty in India | 339.460954 RAN/P The politics of poverty | 339.460954 SUB/P The Poverty Line |
If India is described in conflicting and exaggerated terms a growth miracle, yet a poverty stricken country. Breaking Through creates a more nuanced portrait of the nation. It presents an India that is at the cusp of change, attempting to emerge from poverty.
In Breaking Through, this India is exemplified through individual, representational stories of innovation, endeavour, struggle and 'success'. We meet poor and orphaned Neelu, who becomes a serial house owner in the capital, health worker Santosh, who strives to meet her own health needs, penurious Nazma, who is concerned about the quality of her children's education, underprivileged entrepreneurs Shan and Dhan, who wrest the rich dividends of growth.
These narratives highlight a complex journey. They present the roadblocks that hinder the entry of the poor into economic life (markets or credit and infrastructure or businesses governed by transparency) and obstruct their capacity to seize the basic entitlements of health, education and political participation. This makes social or economic transition difficult, circuitous and sometimes, rife with danger. Breaking Through reminds us that to look past these stories of struggle, energy and drive these narratives of people emerging from poverty is to miss the vibrancy and complexity of India and her growth story.
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