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Book Talk: The good and the bad of modern India

published Thu, Jun 14 2012 04:14 GMT
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The cryptic title of Akash Kapur's book, "India Becoming," is deliberately ambiguous. Becoming what? Raised in India but educated from age 16 in the United States, Kapur has earned degrees from Harvard and Oxford. He moved back to India in 2003, an optimistic time when the country's modernization was accelerating. An economic boom has had many positive effects, but at a cost, such as a damaged environment and violence. Many people find it hard to navigate a path between modernity and tradition. ...

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