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.
Anand Giridharadas sensed something was afoot as his plane prepared to land in Bombay. An elderly passenger looked at him and said, Were all trying to go that way, pointing to the rear. You, youre going this way. Giridharadas was.
Telling these stories through the prism of his own emigre family history and his childhood memories of India, Giridharadas shows how India is reinventing itself: how parents and children, husbands and wives, cousins and siblings are seizing ...
This is an engrossing and acutely observed appreciation of a country that is at once old and new - an enormously readable book in which everyone, at home in India or abroad, will find something distinctive and altogether challenging.
This is the autobiography of Cornelia Sorabji, India's first female barrister. Spanning her life from childhood to adulthood, Sorabji discusses her dedication to improving the legal and personal status of...
Cultural, spiritual, social exploration of contemporary India