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Review of Solomon’s Lifelines: The Traffic of Trauma | Saurav K. RaiBOOK REVIEW
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Lifelines:
The Traffic of Trauma
by Harris Solomon
Duke University Press
2022. xiv + 286 pp.
(cloth), ISBN 978-1-4780-1621-2; $27.95
(paper), ISBN 978-1-4780-1885-8.
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Reviewed by Saurav K. Rai (Gandhi Smriti)
Cultural theorist and media expert Ravi Sundaram, centering his analysis on Delhi in the 1990s against the backdrop of rising instances of car accidents as private car ownership proliferated, argued that contemporary India is suffused with what he termed wound culture.