No Borders: Journeys of an Indian Journalist

by Mukul Sharma

Images of West, as a source of all hope, a place of luxury, affluence and ease, persist in the popular Indian imagination. On the other hand, most countries of South principally appear in the western media as sites of violence, or places of expanding markets. Moreover, while the North assumes the right to comment on the South, the South is usually denied the same. This one-dimensional exchange and orientation reinforces a simplistic and damaging falsification of the relationship between North and South and between South and South. //Challenging stereotyped coverage and images, No Borders is a journey of an Indian journalist through many countries of developed and developing world between 1990-2005. Part-reportage and part-research, based on extensive field work along with photographs, it explores radical changes, interventions and popular protests of the common people, communities, trade unions, farmers and women organizations, peoples movements and civil society bodies in present-day USA, UK, Germany, South Africa, Namibia, Zimbabwe, Brazil, Bolivia, Nigeria, Malaysia, Indonesia, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Nepal and India.

248 pages, Hardcover

Published December 21, 2012