That book, red market, is by a wired mag reporter Scott Carney who spent several years in chennai. I am not sure but he could be lurking here too
--srs (htc one x) ----- Reply message ----- From: "ashok _" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Subject: [silk] Recommended Reading from 2012 Date: Thu, Jan 10, 2013 12:45 PM On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 10:28 PM, Thaths <[email protected]> wrote: > For the fourth year in a row, I am turning to silk listers for book > recommendation this holiday season. > > What have you read over the last year that has left a mark on you? > What are you eagerly looking forward to reading over the Christmas/New > Year's holidays? > > Sometime back i read a book called the -- The Red Market: On the Trail of the World's Organ Brokers, Bone Thieves, Blood Farmers, and Child Traffickers http://www.amazon.com/Red-Market-Brokers-Thieves-Traffickers/dp/0061936464 a large part of the book is set in india. its flawed in some ways, but an interesting read. > Past silk list recommendations have included such gems as: > > * Alice Albina's Empires of the Indus > * Samanth Subramaniam's Following Fish > * Sarnath Bannerjee's Barn Owl's Wondrous Capers, and > * Devdutt Pattanaik's Myth=Mithya. > * Aman Sethi's A Free Man > > Books that are easy to get a hold of in India (and more difficult > elsewhere) preferred (but not required). Fiction and non-fiction > recommendations are equally welcome. > > Some of the books that I read and enjoyed this year: > > The Man Within My Head, Pico Iyer > Breakdowns: Portrait of the Artist as a Young %@&*!, Art Spiegelman (an > oldie, but I only got to it this year) > The Rabbi's Cat, Joann Sfar (The Dungeon series is also highly recommended) > > Thaths > -- > Homer: Hey, what does this job pay? > Carl: Nuthin'. > Homer: D'oh! > Carl: Unless you're crooked. > Homer: Woo-hoo! > Sudhakar Chandra Slacker Without Borders >
