Reversing his parents' immigrant path, a young American-born writer returns to India and discovers an old country making itself new

Anand Giridharadas sensed something was afoot as his plane from America prepared to land in Bombay. An elderly passenger looked at him and said, "We're all trying to go that way," pointing to the rear. "You, you're going this way?"

Giridharadas was returning to the land of his ancestors, amid an unlikely economic boom. But he was interested less in its gold rush than in its cultural upheaval, as a new generation has sought to reconcile old traditions and customs with new ambitions and dreams.

In "India Calling," Giridharadas brings to life the people and the dilemmas of India today, through the prism of his emigre family history and his childhood memories of India. He introduces us to entrepreneurs, radicals, industrialists, and religious seekers, but, most of all, to Indian families. He shows how parents and children, husbands and wives, cousins and siblings are reinventing relationships, bending the meaning of Indianness, and enduring the pangs of the old birthing the new.

Through their stories, and his own, he paints an intimate portrait of a country becoming modern while striving to remain itself."

一个在美国出生的年轻作家颠覆了他父母的移民之路，回到了印度，发现这个古老的国家正在焕然一新。

当阿南德-吉里达拉达斯从美国飞来的飞机准备在孟买降落时，他感觉到有什么东西在动。一位年长的乘客看着他说："我们都想往那边走，"指着后面。"你，你要走这条路？"

吉里达拉达斯在一个不太可能的经济繁荣中回到了他祖先的土地。但他对这片土地上的淘金热不感兴趣，而是对其文化动荡感兴趣，因为新的一代人试图将旧的传统和习俗与新的野心和梦想协调起来。

在《印度的呼唤》中，吉里达拉达斯通过他的移民家庭历史和他对印度的童年记忆的棱镜，将当今印度的人民和困境带入了现实。他向我们介绍了企业家、激进分子、工业家和宗教追求者，但最重要的是，介绍了印度家庭。他展示了父母和子女、丈夫和妻子、表亲和兄弟姐妹是如何重塑关系，弯曲印度性的含义，以及忍受旧的孕育新的痛苦的。

通过他们的故事和他自己的故事，他描绘了一个在努力保持自身特色的同时变得现代化的国家的亲密画卷。