India is Changing
by Benjamin on July 7, 2009
A beautiful Op-ed in the NYT discusses the changes going on in India today, and how thereason for a generation leaving the country in the 1980s, are disappearing (slowly), and is making those people re-evaluate their choice, while providing new opportunities for this generation.
Indians from languorous villages to pulsating cities were making difficult new choices to die other than where they were born, to pursue vocations not their father’s, to live lives imagined within their own skulls. And it was addictive, this improbable rush of hope.
This is combined with a healthy bit of realism and the personal observations of Anand Giridharadas [whose blog is definetively worth a look], as he gets ready to go back home to America, leaving Mumbai after six years:
The shift is only just beginning. Most Indians still live impossibly grim lives. Trickle down, here more than most places, is slow. But it is a shift in psychologies, and you rarely meet an Indian untouched by it.
Read the whole article here
