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Apr262012
Return to India, Part 16: Inside the Biradar house: portrait of an elder woman - portrait of a young girl
Thursday, April 26, 2012 at 11:47PM
What does she look back upon, Manoj's grandmother Shivamma, who lives in Bijapur, a remote village that still lacks many of the conviences of the modern world, including running water and sewer? I met her in the home of Manoj's parents, Mahadev Bimanna and Jayshree Biradar. How does she fit the new and changing India into the one that formed her?
And just what does she dream, this young girl whom I found sleeping within the walls of the same house? How will the new India unfold before her? And how will the India of old fit into it?
These questions, by the way, apply not only in India, but wherever the reader might be, too.
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Reader Comments (1)
Let us hope it will be one of peace.