India Calling Giridharadas Anand
India Calling Giridharadas Anand A] smart, evocative and sharply observed memoir . . . An elderly passenger looked at him and said, We're all trying to go that way, pointing to the rear.…
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India Calling Giridharadas Anand
A] smart, evocative and sharply observed memoir . . . An elderly passenger looked at him and said, We're all trying to go that way, pointing to the rear. Giridharadas's narrative gusto makes the familiar fresh.--The Wall Street JournalAnand Giridharadas sensed something was afoot as his plane from America prepared to land in Bombay.
But he was more interested in its cultural upheaval, as a new generation has sought to reconcile old traditions and customs with new ambitions and dreams.In India Calling, he brings to life the people and the dilemmas of India today, through the prism of his migr family history and his childhood memories of India. You, you're going this way?Giridharadas was returning to the land of his ancestors, amid an unlikely economic boom. He introduces us to entrepreneurs, radicals, industrialists, and religious seekers, but, most of all,