'India Calling' by Anand Giridharadas
VIEW EVENT DETAILSOpening remarks by
Indian Ambassador H.E. Meera Shankar
In his early twenties, Anand Giridharadas—like many young American men—set out to seek his fortune. Unlike many young men, he did so by journeying back to the very country his parents had emigrated from a generation before, seeking a better life: India.
In India Calling, Giridharadas examines not just the businesses, foreign investments, and global politics that have led to India's headlong rush into modernity; but also the individuals seeking to reconcile old traditions and customs with new ambitions and dreams. Hired as the first Bombay-based correspondent in modern times for the International Herald Tribune, he traveled the country seeking stories.
Please join Asia Society and the Embassy of India for an evening with Giridharadas, where he talks about the book and the people he met, who are changing India from a post-colonial country tied to the caste system, to a meritocracy quickly becoming a contender for the next global superpower.
'Anand Giridharadas is more than just a widely admired journalist; with India Calling he has transformed into a fluent, witty, and intelligent writer. His very personal and perceptive look at the new India is a memorable debut, full of insight and diversion."
'William Dalrymple, author of Nine Lives: In Search of the Sacred in Modern India
'Anand Giridharadas has become one of the finest analysts of contemporary India. In India Calling, he has produced 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.'
' Amartya Sen, Nobel laureate in economics
This event is co-hosted with the Embassy of India
In his early twenties, Anand Giridharadas—like many young American men—set out to seek his fortune. Unlike many young men, he did so by journeying back to the very country his parents had emigrated from a generation before, seeking a better life: India.
In India Calling, Giridharadas examines not just the businesses, foreign investments, and global politics that have led to India's headlong rush into modernity; but also the individuals seeking to reconcile old traditions and customs with new ambitions and dreams. Hired as the first Bombay-based correspondent in modern times for the International Herald Tribune, he traveled the country seeking stories.
Please join Asia Society and the Embassy of India for an evening with Giridharadas, where he talks about the book and the people he met, who are changing India from a post-colonial country tied to the caste system, to a meritocracy quickly becoming a contender for the next global superpower.
'Anand Giridharadas is more than just a widely admired journalist; with India Calling he has transformed into a fluent, witty, and intelligent writer. His very personal and perceptive look at the new India is a memorable debut, full of insight and diversion."
'William Dalrymple, author of Nine Lives: In Search of the Sacred in Modern India
'Anand Giridharadas has become one of the finest analysts of contemporary India. In India Calling, he has produced 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.'
' Amartya Sen, Nobel laureate in economics
This event is co-hosted with the Embassy of India
Event Details
Thu 13 Jan 2011
Embassy of India 2107 Massachusetts Ave NW Washington, DC 20008 Washington, DC
$15 Asia Society members. $20 nonmembers. RSVPs are required by 5:00 pm on Jan. 12.