![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But Giridharadas also explains how he encountered a society riddled with ancient divisions of class and caste.Īnand Giridharadas writes the "Currents" column for the International Herald Tribune and The New York Times online. In his book, India Calling, Giridharadas describes how India's growing economy is creating growing opportunity - what many might recognize as American-style chances to get ahead. "India has become - in a way that it has not been - a land of opportunity for millions and millions and millions of people," he says. Writer Anand Giridharadas grew up in America, but it was in India - the country that his parents left - where he went to look for hope. "My notion of it was never based on India's history or traditions, its long civilizational parade it was a first-generation idea of a place in our shared past, nostalgically shared but blessedly past." "I grew up with only a faint idea that another country was also somehow mine," Giridharadas writes of his upbringing in America. The sun sets over a stretch of the skyline in Mumbai, India, where writer Anand Giridharadas worked as a management consultant after he graduated from college. ![]()
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