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

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

Anand Giridharadas sensed something was once afoot as his plane from The united states prepared to land in Bombay. An elderly passenger looked at him and said, “We’re all seeking to go that way,” pointing to the rear. “You, you are going this way?”Giridharadas was once returning to the land of his ancestors, amid an unlikely economic boom. But he was once more taken with 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 lately, through the prism of his émigré circle of relatives history and his childhood memories of India. He introduces us to entrepreneurs, radicals, industrialists, and spiritual seekers, but, most of all, to Indian families. Through their stories, and his own, he paints an intimate portrait of a country becoming up to date even as striving to remain itself.

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