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

Giridharadas, Anand

ISBN 10: 1250001722 / ISBN 13: 9781250001726

Published by St. Martin's Griffin, 2012

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: India Calling: An Intimate Portrait of a Nation's Remaking
• Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1250001722
• ISBN 13: 9781250001726
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: Very Good
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

"[A] smart, evocative and sharply observed memoir . . . Giridharadas's narrative gusto makes the familiar fresh."―The Wall Street Journal

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 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 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. Through their stories, and his own, he paints an intimate portrait of a country becoming modern while striving to remain itself.

About the Author

Anand Giridharadas writes the “Currents” column for the International Herald Tribune and The New York Times online. He is the author of India Calling: An Intimate Portrait of a Nation's Remaking. A native of Cleveland, Ohio, and a graduate of the University of Michigan, he worked in Bombay as a management consultant until 2005, when he began reporting from that city for the Herald Tribune and the Times. He now lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.