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An Intimate Portrait of a Nation's Remaking
Times Books
January 2011
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Featuring: Anand Giridharadas
288 pages
ISBN: 0805091777
EAN: 9780805091779
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
Reversing his parents' immigrant path, a young American-born
writer returns to India and discovers an old country making
itself new Anand Giridharadas sensed something was afoot as his plane
from America 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 and
customs with new ambitions and dreams. In India Calling, Giridharadas brings to life the people and
the dilemmas of India today, through the prism of his émigré
family history and his childhood memories of India. He
introduces us to entrepreneurs, radicals, industrialists,
and religious seekers, but, most of all, to Indian families.
He shows how parents and children, husbands and wives,
cousins and siblings are reinventing relationships, bending
the meaning of Indianness, and enduring the pangs of the old
birthing the new. Through their stories, and his own, he paints an intimate
portrait of a country becoming modern while striving to
remain itself.
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