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Thanks, Lauren Cerand

Mark Sarvas has learned from the NY Times that India is among the most researched keywords on the newspaper’s site. Which seemed as good a reason as any to read Siddhartha Deb’s review-essay in the Nation about the opposed ways in which India is viewed:

There is a fundamental dissonance between lived experience and analysis that becomes pronounced at certain times, across particular cultures and in relation to certain subjects. Today this is especially true of books that look at people living on the margins of globalization, at groups whose assimilation into the model of neoliberal capitalism is still unfinished, still unpredictable. All too often, a writer crossing the border into other realms of existence chooses to ignore the dissonance, offering an analysis that hardly takes into account the difference between the way things look from the Western centers of neoliberal capitalism and the way life feels in the new capitalist outposts in Asia.

Here is another recent piece on India and globalization by the indefatigable Vijay Prashad.

Photo by Haran

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