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Review of INDIA CALLING in Cleveland Plain Dealer

For ‘India Calling,’ former Clevelander Anand Giridharadas writes eloquently of two cultures
Published: Tuesday, January 04, 2011
By Plain Dealer guest writer
India Calling, Times Books, 273 pp., $25
By Jo Gibson
For Anand Giridharadas growing up in Cleveland, India was simply the country his father and his mother chose to leave.
In “India Calling,” Giridharadas’ readable, intriguing book, he reverses directions, taking work in Bombay after graduating from the University of Michigan.
Here, he describes his parents’ adaptation in 1979:
“It was not long before my mother was backing a red Oldsmobile, larger than many Indian dwellings, down an icy driveway in Shaker Heights, not long before my father, with his Indian accent, was counseling the executives of America’s leading companies . . . They discovered new music that was not their own music, new food not their own food. They took up new styles of dressing. They soaked…

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Anand Giridharadas is an author and columnist, writing about a world in transition. He writes the “Currents” column for The New York Times and its global edition, the International Herald Tribune, and also writes for The New York Times Magazine. He has reported from India, China, Norway, Haiti, Brazil, Colombia, Nigeria and the United States. He is the author of “India Calling: An Intimate Portrait of a Nation’s Remaking,” about returning to the India his parents left. Born in Cleveland, Ohio, and educated at the University of Michigan, Oxford and Harvard, he is a former consultant for McKinsey & Company and later reported from Bombay for the Herald Tribune and The Times. A Henry Crown fellow of the Aspen Institute, he has lectured around the world, including at Google, PopTech, the Sydney Opera House and Harvard Business School. He lives in Brooklyn, New York. Sign up to join his regular newsletter here.

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