01897nam a22002297a 4500 20250825150041.0 250825b |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 9780143465713 CBS Publisher & Distributors 204, FIE, Industrial Area, Patparganj, New Delhi COR/IN/26/4776 14/08/2025 301.295 KIS Kisana, Ravikant. Meet the Savarnas : Indian Millennials Whose Mediocrity Broke Everything. /Ravikant Kisana. , Gurugram : Penguin Random House , 2025. xii, 187p. : 24cm. 489 In the early 2000s, India was expected to ‘shine’ and emerge as a rising superpower. It was the post-1990s golden generation― professionals fresh out of B-schools and engineering programmes ―who were supposed to take us there. The Great Indian Dream was ready to lift-off. Except we never left the ground. No one could really explain what went wrong. Some blamed politicians, some corruption, some capitalism and some communal polarization. Most people missed the giant elephant in the room―caste. Caste in India is mostly researched and reported from the experience of the oppressed. Caste as a privilege is not understood well. How do caste elites respond to modernity? How do they understand culture, intimacy, love and tradition? Were their ideas, institutions and imaginations ever even capable of delivering upon the Great Indian Dream? In Meet the Savarnas, Ravikant Kisana goes where few authors have dared: to document the lives, the concerns and crises of India’s urban elites, to frame the savarnas as a distinct social cohort, one that operates within itself and yet is oblivious of its own social rules, privileges and systems. Savarnas Indian Millennials Mediocrity Ravikant Kisana BOOK 66015 66015 0 0 ddc 0 0 SNUL SNUL 2025-08-25 CBS Publisher & Distributors 489.00 1 1 301.295 KIS 31011 2026-01-22 15:50:20 2025-11-18 2025-08-25 BOOK