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India Calling: An Intimate Portrait of a Nation's Remaking

India Calling: An Intimate Portrait of a Nation's Remaking

An Intimate Portrait of a Nation's Remaking

by Anand Giridharadas
Paperback
Publication Date: 31/01/2011

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Reversing his parents' immigrant path, a young writer returns to India and discovers an old country making itself new.

Anand Giridharadas sensed something was afoot as his plane prepared to land in Bombay. An elderly passenger looked at him and said, 'We're all trying to go that way,' pointing to the rear. 'You, you're going this way?'

Giridharadas was returning to the land of his ancestors, amid an unlikely economic boom. But he was interested less in its gold rush than in its cultural upheaval, as a new generation has sought to reconcile old traditions with new ambitions.

In India Calling, Giridharadas brings to life the people and the dilemmas of India today, as seen through the prism of his emigre family history and his childhood memories. He blends the objectivity of the outsider with the intimacy of the insider. The result is India seen at once from within and without. Giridharadas introduces us to entrepreneurs, radicals, industrialists and religious seekers, but, most of all, to Indian families. Through their stories, and his own, he paints an intimate portrait of a country becoming modern while striving to remain itself.
'One of the finest analysts of contemporary India. This is an engrossing and acutely observed appreciation of a country that is at once old and new - an enormously readable book in which everyone, at home in India or abroad, will find something distinctive and altogether challenging.'
- AMARTYA SEN
Nobel laureate

'Savvy and often moving, India Calling is for those who prefer the view from the ground than from thirty thousand feet.'
- EDWARD LACE
author of In Spite of the Gods- The Rise of Modern India
ISBN:
9781863955164
9781863955164
Category:
Cultural studies
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
31-01-2011
Publisher:
Black Inc.
Country of origin:
Australia
Pages:
286
Dimensions (mm):
230x156x21mm
Weight:
0.38kg
Anand Giridharadas

Anand Giridharadas is the bestselling author of Winners Take All. He is a correspondent-at-large for Time and was a foreign correspondent and columnist for The New York Times. He has also written for The Atlantic, The New Republic, and The New Yorker. He is an on-air political analyst for MSNBC. He has received the 800-CEO-READ Business Book of the Year award, Harvard University's Outstanding Lifetime Achievement Award for Humanism in Culture, and the New York Public Library's Helen Bernstein Award.

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