Anand Giridharadas Debuts His Novel: India Calling
Friday, 16/12/2011
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The land of opportunity beckons many an Indian with a few ever looking back. For those who do, it’s one of the biggest decisions that is fraught with emotions, and the constant back-and-forth of the “should we or shouldn’t we” return to India. With preferences boiling down to individual decisions, the journey back home is met with mixed emotions. New York Times columnist-turned-authorAnand Giridharadas, a second generation immigrant, did just that.
Born in Ohio and brought up in Cleveland and Maryland, Giridharadas works as an analyst for CNN and CBC Radio, besides being a columnist for the NY Times. He also has a background in politics and history. In 2003, he moved to Mumbai as a consultant at McKinsey.
Giridharadas’ latest book India Calling: An Intimate Portrait of a Nation's Remaking explores the changes and discovery of a new India. He told Outlook magazine that his aim was to “speak to Indians as an insider-outsider...to help society choose among the multiple futures available for India.”
This novel, India Calling, marks his return to a new India. The new India that he speaks of is reflective of the collective changes in people’s lives, and this in turn, heralds a change in the nation. The novel is replete with immigrant family history and childhood memories coupled with characters as diverse from entrepreneurs to industrialists and spiritual seekers among others. Through this book, he gives an insight into how relationships are being reinvented between families among others.
