San Antonio College Library

India is brought to life by one who is a native of the land. He has given the reader a description of the land, the customs, the religions, the government, the ancient rites and the new emergence of India with the discovery of advance technology.

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....