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028			_a: Samyak Vidyasagar Enterprises _b; K-508, Ajnara Integrity, Rajnagar Extension Ghaziabad, U.P. Ghaziabad _c: BOS-000529 _d: 17/03/2026
082			_a305.4 DIX
100			_aDixit, Neha.
245			_aThe Many Lives Of Syeda X _c/ Neha Dixit.
260			_a, Noida _b: Juggernaut Books _c, 2024.
300			_axv, 323p. _c: 24cm.
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520			_aWhat does the life of an ordinary working-class Indian look and feel like? In this outstanding book, the award-winning journalist Neha Dixit traces the story of one such faceless Indian woman, from the early 1990s to the present day. What emerges is a picture of a life lived under constant corrosive tension. Syeda X left Banaras for Delhi with her young family in the aftermath of riots triggered by the demolition of the Babri Masjid. In Delhi, she settled into the life of a poor migrant, juggling multiple jobs a day – from trimming the loose threads of jeans to cooking namkeen, and from shelling almonds to making tea strainers.Syeda has done over fifty different types of work, earning paltry sums in the process. And if she ever took a day off, her job would be lost to another faceless migrant. Researched for close to a decade, in this book, we meet an unforgettable cast of characters: a rickshaw driver in Chandni Chowk who ends up tragically dead in a terrorist blast; a doctor who gets arrested for pre-natal sex determination; a gau rakshak whose sister elopes with Syeda’s son; and policemen who delight in beating young Muslim men. In the end, things comes to a grotesque full circle for Syeda. Her life is upturned for the umpteenth time during the Delhi riots of 2020. But displacement, tragedy and hardships are the things she is used to – being poor and Muslim and a woman. Written with empathy and deep insight, this book is a portal to a harsh world hidden away from elite Indians. It is the story of untold millions and a searing account of urban life in New India.
650			_aFinance
650			_aBusiness Economics
650			_aSociology
700			_aNeha Dixit
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