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...Chatterjee's struggle to conquer life in his new world, the world of an American academic in the Midwest. Instead, the novel is a celebration of the old world Jayojit has left behind. A New World traces Jayojit's longings for the old world of his parents' home in Calcutta, longings that seem to surprise even Jayojit himself...
...India. Jayojit intends to spend his vacation bonding with his family and working on his book, but he gets lost in the easy routine of being at home. For two months, Jayojit naps on his parents' couch, eats his mother's traditional cooking and ambles through the streets of Calcutta...
Chaudhuri focuses much of his novel on Jayojit's observations of the seemingly mundane details of life in Calcutta. Jayojit dutifully recounts the shifts in the dollar-rupee ratio and vividly describes the different saris worn by all the women he sees. He is as entranced by the noise of car horns on the street as he is by the religious rituals of his parents' neighbors. These snippets of life in India that Chaudhuri gives us through his account of Jayojit's wanderings are sometimes moving, sometimes simply mundane. But these observations in fact provide the key to Jayojit...
...canonization of Pope Pius IX goes against the feelings of most people. We associate sanctity with heroines like Mother Teresa of Calcutta, not aristocrats at the top of the Catholic hierarchy who lived in golden palaces as kings. GIORGIO DI PRIMIO Bologna, Italy...
Indians are running FORTUNE 500 companies (Rono Dutta is president of United Airlines, and Rakesh Gangwal is president and CEO of U.S. Airways) or, as consultants and securities analysts, telling others how to do so. (Calcutta-born Rajat Gupta, managing director of consulting giant McKinsey & Co., does both.) But above all, they are bringing their own entrepreneurial stamp to America's high-tech frontiers. Venture-capital fund Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, one of Silicon Valley's biggest VC firms, says 40% of its portfolio consists of companies founded or managed by people of Indian origin. Indians have...