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Pramila Jayapal, An Indian-born, Western-educated Woman, Takes The Reader With Her On A Journey Of Discovery As She Returns To India And Explores The Complex Issues Of Progress And Developments. Jayapal Spends Two Years Immersing Herself In The Life Of Her Native Land, Living In Smaller Cities And Villages. Travelling From Kerala To Ladakh To The Holy City Of Varanasi On The Ganges River, She Witnesses Firsthand A Society Struggling To Reconcile Tradition With Modernity And Eventually Confronts What Both Delights And Frustrates Her In Her Country Of Origin. In Doing So, She Begins To Understand The Profound Lessons That Indian Culture And Society Have To Offer, Lessons With The Power To Enlighten And Enrich Our Way Of Living In Today's Rapidly Changing World.--jacket. Shades Of Gray -- Coming Home -- Revisiting Kerala: The Model State -- Modern Women -- Rules -- The Rhetoric And Reality Of Education -- Meera And Ritu -- Whose Choice Is Development? -- Leaves And Thorns -- Spirit And Soul -- Life And Death In Varanasi -- Sitting In Silence -- Religion: The Faith And The Business -- Pilgrimage -- A Path Of Inquiry -- The Gift Of India -- Swadhyaya: Toward A New World Order -- Village

Author

Pramila Jayapal

Publisher

Seattle, WA: Seal Press: Distributed to the trade by Publishers Group West

Published

2000

Language

EN

ISBN

9781580050326

Subjects

History, Travel, Political Science