I am a child of two worlds. One is America, where I was born after my parents emigrated here in the late 1960s. The other is India, the land of my ancestors, a land that I am both eternally attached to as well as forever frustrated with. But as I travel to her capital, New Delhi, for the 70th anniversary of her independence, there is much to celebrate in this current, most modern version of India. And as both a partial outsider and a partial citizenof that land, I have some unique views on what modern India means to the greater world.
In the early morning of August 15, 1947, India’s independence signaled the end of the British Raj, the English domination of the Indian subcontinent ...
I am a child of two worlds. One is America, where I was born after my parents emigrated here in the late 1960s. The other is India, the land of my ancestors, a land that I am both eternally attached to as well as forever frustrated with. But as I travel to her capital, New Delhi, for the 70th anniversary of her...
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