The Butterfly Generation: A Personal Journey into the Passions and Follies of India's Technicolour Youth

The Butterfly Generation: A Personal Journey into the Passions and Follies of India's Technicolour Youth

Author:

Palash Krishna Mehrotra

Publisher:

Rain Tree

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Publisher

Rain Tree
Publication Year 2012
ISBN-13

9788129117588
ISBN-10 8129117584
Binding

Hardcover
Number of Pages 272 Pages
Language (English)
Dimensions (Cms) 25.4 X 20.3 X 4.7
Weight (grms) 278

Palash Krishna Mehrotra, in The Butterfly Generation, paints a compelling portrait of young urban Indians today, wherein the memories and experiences of a bygone socialist era are contrasted with the sights and sounds of a contemporary Americanized India. Part memoir, part travelogue, part commentary, The Butterfly Generation is the first book about this New India written from an insider's perspective. Half of India's population comprises people under the age of 25 and it is their stories that this book tells. Palash writes about doomed call centre workers, drug dealers on the make, Versova scriptwriters, watching Doordarshan in the eighties, discovering pop music on shortwave radio, the coming of MTV, the rise of heavy metal bands, the Gay Pride March, Valentine's Day, ragging in Indian hostels, McJobs and the single life. The Butterfly Generation swings back and forth between Hindi and English, Bollywood and Hollywood, the little black dress and the six yard sari.

Palash Krishna Mehrotra

Palash Krishna Mehrotra was born in Bombay in 1975. He was educated at St Stephen’s College, Delhi, where he did his BA in philosophy and won the Radhakrishnan Scholarship to read for a PPE at Balliol College, Oxford. His debut collection of stories, Eunuch Park: Fifteen Stories of Love and Destruction, was shortlisted for the Shakti Bhatt First Book Prize and the Hindu Fiction Prize in 2009. His first book of non-fiction, The Butterfly Generation: A Personal Journey into the Passions and Follies of India’s Technicolour Youth, was a finalist for the Crossword Book Award 2013. He is also the editor of an anthology, Recess: The Penguin Book of Schooldays. He was Contributing Editor at Rolling Stone India and writes a fortnightly column for Mail Today Sunday, DailyO and Daily Mail Online. He lives in New Delhi and Dehradun.
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