This melting-pot of cultures, religions and tastes is most famous for Bollywood movies, ostentatious festivities, exquisite cuisine, talented doctors, engineers and scientists. It has the second biggest number of citizans living abroad in the world. The life in India has been portrayed in many Western movies.
During holidays I read a book Around India in 80 trains written by Monisha Rajesh. She is a British journalist born in Great Britain, but is of Indian origins. Her parents are doctors who decided to move to Europe. Monisha wanted to discover the land of their ancestors, its tastes and culture, give an account of how the country had changed since her parents' departure. That is why she took a decision to travel across the country in a range of luxurious and local trains with Passepartout, a moody photograph. During her exhausting journey she met different kind of people from all castes which helped her to understand the modern spirit of India.
I also listened to a BBC documentary on how the life in India looks in modern days. The journalist presented four people to the listeners: two doctors who have their private clinic and spend a few hours in an immense traffic jam every day, that's why they wake up at 5 a.m., a woman living in a rural part of India who struggles daily with shores and works on the field when her husband earns a living in a big city in order to get his children educated and finally a young, ambitious man who wants to pass his final exams in maths so he can study on a prestigious university, get a good job and better his family's status.
No comments:
Post a Comment