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    Anand Giridharadas Debuts His Novel: India Calling

    Yahoo! India News – Fri 16 Dec, 2011

    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-author Anand 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.

    The INK Conference recently invited Giridharadas. Watch the video.

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    18 comments

    • Gujuguy003
      Gujuguy003  •  5 months ago
      good stuff i think i saw this book recently at a book store nad was tempted tobuy it. I always loved indian and wanted to stay in india instead of coming to Us but i did after high school and i always loved india more and more when i was out of it but now after looking at all the corruption by the minister and the weakness of the common peopl to stand up and do something for the resource specially health and security i thinkto myself that do i really want to go back .. what happens where there is a emergency or a health concern... will i get help in india..
      • Arya
        Arya 5 months ago
        So Gujjuguy, there are lots of things that are very different in India from what you are used to in US. I made the transition. It is never what you would expect, and yet you need to really set your expectations right. At the core of this decision is a simple question. Why? Why would you do it? To answer lots of personal values, habits and aspirations need to be examined.
      • marghoob
        marghoob 4 months ago
        It is the matter of love. It depends how much we love our mother land. Every love demand for sacrifice. If our fore fathers who fought with Birtishers for freedom had thought like us. Even today we would be a slave in the hands of Birtain. Now our Nation. Seeking a second round of freedom. That is freedom from corruption. This only be achieved by sacrefice and sacrefice will come from love. Love as Mother Land. For an spark its size does not really matters its intencity realy matters.We as Indians are laging behind with spark of love towards our mother land, That is the root cause of corruption, unjustice, pooerity and so many other problems
    • charles
      charles  •  5 months ago
      Happy for you "Anand Giridharadas".
    • Amit
      Amit  •  5 months ago
      Welcome to India
    • hikmatt
      hikmatt  •  5 months ago
      Welcome shri Anand,pl keep up the good work.
    • Ajith
      Ajith  •  5 months ago
      warm welcome to our motherland, India, Sri Anand Giridharadas!! We welcome you whole heartedly.
    • Chandrika K
      Chandrika K  •  5 months ago
      I hold greencard since 2006 since than I use to re enter there before 6months completes can any body tell me can i apply for citizenship as i finish 5yrs
    • Tugga
      Tugga  •  5 months ago
      idiots he came here to sell his book.The word Indian origin has become a big joke.
    • dee18
      dee18  •  5 months ago
      its been quiet some time since this book has released...good writing
    • Prokash
      Prokash  •  5 months ago
      this is the greatest decision
    • ram
      ram  •  5 months ago
      Great move , what about others?
    • biraja
      biraja  •  5 months ago
      good
    • Miyan
      Miyan  •  5 months ago
      When you go India embassy in NY city consulate will make you stand in line out side in cold for hours. Wen you are inside just go and feel how they behave with you. After this please let us know if you want to hear India calling.
      • Chandrika K
        Chandrika K 5 months ago
        I do agree with you miyan they always treat people like beggars not as indian like our all time politicians
      • Gujuguy003
        Gujuguy003 5 months ago
        i dont get it indians treating indians bad nad bending backwards for the goras here in USA... Indias are ashamed of other indians for some reason and with the immigration and counsulate dept. of india are worst of all feel just like india no facilities,no polite treatement , no answers to any question nothing....Worst people ever
      • Arya
        Arya 5 months ago
        Do you make the same complaint about having to stand in a line for hours outside American Consulate in India? Some reason people find it acceptable for Americans to mistreat Indians but not acceptable for Indians to mistreat Americans. WHY?
    • Kumar
      Kumar  •  5 months ago
      this guy is an idiot. no smart overseas born indian will go back to india. India = same crap different day
      • Arya
        Arya 5 months ago
        Kumar you are a fool. No doubt.
    • NivanB
      NivanB  •  5 months ago
      As a fellow NRI welcome to India
      • Arya
        Arya 5 months ago
        huh? someone who resides in india cannot be a NRI. i am sure you will understand this if you think about it.
    • anwar
      anwar  •  5 months ago
      we all should welcome him !!!
    • Mohamed
      Mohamed  •  5 months ago
      Bull shit!! He is just of Indian origin and not an Indian himself!! Dont promote such ppl..
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      Hdhd Soliman  •  Al Urmån, Egypt  •  4 months ago
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