Writer Anand Giridharadas grew up in America, but it was in India — the country that his parents left — where he went to look for hope. "India has become — in a way that it has not been — a land of opportunity for millions and millions and millions of people," he says.
In his book, India Calling, Giridharadas describes how India's growing economy is creating growing opportunity — what many might recognize as American-style chances to get ahead. But Giridharadas also explains how he encountered a society riddled with ancient divisions of class and caste.
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