Sarah macdonald books5/24/2023 ![]() Over the following two decades, with succeeding waves of cultural adoption / adaptation of Indian icons - Madonna's bindi, Deepak Chopra's mysticism, the popularity of yoga and vegetarianism, Bollywood movies and even some of the more obscure practices like kirtan - the country has gradually shed that image. ![]() ![]() When I first moved to the US in the early 1980s, India was commonly seen as a land of crushing poverty laced with an exotic spirituality and mysticism. It is like to trying to guess an elephant while peeking through a tiny window. Not because I think India has not changed, but because I think trend-watchers like him tend to miss the whole picture. ![]() Although I liked knowing that a technology manager such as my boss was plugged into the new image of India, I don't agree with his view. The implication was that India has changed so much in recent years that any book written over a decade ago must be passe. ![]() This book was written in the late 1980s by Elisabeth Bumiller who is now a reporter for the New York Times. "Irreverent and spiritual" is not an oxymoron! These are words that best describe this book.Ī few months back my boss saw me reading May You Be the Mother of a Hundred Sons during my lunch break. ![]()
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