4.4
Non-Fiction
'Every day, millions of people—the rich, the poor and the many foreign visitors—are hunting for ways to get their business done in modern India. If they search in the right places and offer the appropriate price, there is always a facilitator who can get the job done. This book is a sneak preview of those searches, the middlemen who do those jobs, and the many opportunities that the fast-growing economy offers.'
Josy Joseph draws upon two decades as an investigative journalist to expose a problem so pervasive that we do not have the words to speak of it. The story is big: that of treacherous business rivalries, of how some industrial houses practically own the country, of the shadowy men who run the nation's politics. The story is small: a village needs a road and a hospital, a graveyard needs a wall, people need toilets. A Feast of Vultures is an unprecedented, multiple-level inquiry into modern India, and the picture it reveals is both explosive and frightening. Within these covers is unimpeachable evidence against some of the country's biggest business houses and political figures, and the reopening of major scandals that have shaped its political narratives. Through hard-nosed investigations and the meticulous gathering of documentary evidence, Joseph clinically examines and irrefutably documents the non-reportable. It is a troubling narrative, but also a call to action and a cry for change. A tour de force through the wildly beating heart of post-socialist India, the book is a must-read for anyone interested in understanding the large, unwieldy truth about this nation.
© 2020 HarperCollins India (Audiobook): 9789390351060
Release date
Audiobook: 9 December 2020
4.4
Non-Fiction
'Every day, millions of people—the rich, the poor and the many foreign visitors—are hunting for ways to get their business done in modern India. If they search in the right places and offer the appropriate price, there is always a facilitator who can get the job done. This book is a sneak preview of those searches, the middlemen who do those jobs, and the many opportunities that the fast-growing economy offers.'
Josy Joseph draws upon two decades as an investigative journalist to expose a problem so pervasive that we do not have the words to speak of it. The story is big: that of treacherous business rivalries, of how some industrial houses practically own the country, of the shadowy men who run the nation's politics. The story is small: a village needs a road and a hospital, a graveyard needs a wall, people need toilets. A Feast of Vultures is an unprecedented, multiple-level inquiry into modern India, and the picture it reveals is both explosive and frightening. Within these covers is unimpeachable evidence against some of the country's biggest business houses and political figures, and the reopening of major scandals that have shaped its political narratives. Through hard-nosed investigations and the meticulous gathering of documentary evidence, Joseph clinically examines and irrefutably documents the non-reportable. It is a troubling narrative, but also a call to action and a cry for change. A tour de force through the wildly beating heart of post-socialist India, the book is a must-read for anyone interested in understanding the large, unwieldy truth about this nation.
© 2020 HarperCollins India (Audiobook): 9789390351060
Release date
Audiobook: 9 December 2020
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Qabeer
2 Feb 2022
The book is a mix of Ramachandra Guha and P. Sainath like understanding of Indian society. All the major corporate scandals, Bofors, Adani, Ambani, Jindal, Vedanta, Jet Airways have been covered and the reader is informed about the scale of money, power and crime involved to cover up the corporate-led plunder, endorsed by the political class. As a book, it is very newspaperish, with very little engagement and reflection on why is it happening. It is naive of fact, that corporatocracy in India is a part of a wider global trend, the epilogue reproduces that naivety.
S Deepak
11 Jun 2021
highly biased
Babu
20 Jun 2021
Indian democracy
SHISHIR
27 Aug 2022
Slapgate of truth
Bornik
25 Oct 2021
Good topic.. Though it will be dificult to prove but most things said here will be believed by many.
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