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 emigre 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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