Description: Snigdha Poonam traveled through towns in northern India to investigate millennials, who are nothing like their Western counterparts. In a country of exceptional ambition, crushing limitations, and toxic masculinity, she found clickbaiters, scammers, and hucksters, but also strivers and student leaders hungry for change--a generation of dreamers.
Brief description: Snigdha Poonam is a journalist based in New Delhi. Her work has appeared in the Guardian, the New York Times, and Granta. She currently reports on national affairs at the Hindustan Times. She won the 2017 Journalist of Change award for a work of reportage that appeared on Huffington Post. Dreamers is her first book.
Review Quotes: A brilliant dive into the seething psyche of India's small-town youth: a mayhem of sexuality, sentimentality, and insatiable hunger for success--at whatever price.--Sunil Khilnani, author of The Idea of India