So it happens that in last two weeks I meet with two of my friends who come back from their long awaited sojourn to India. And as for most immigrant Desis, it is a long awaited break from his newly difficult adjusting home in US. And so this vacation besides meeting his loved ones also carries with itself a big hope of finding something new. And especially fuiled by all the media hype about the NEW EMERGING INDIA that he immersed in the US media he in his heart hopes to find a better India than he had left. And as had happened with me the trip though brings happy memories it also brings bewilderment or as my friend put it puts him in a "CATCH 22 SITUATION", of not being very happy with life up here but not also happy of how things are shaping up in India.
India is going thorugh a phenomenal change not only in its econonomy which the whole world is catching with its breath, but more importantnly socially and enviromentally. This becomes even more poignant as this development means development of more than 1 billion people, which has increased by 200 million( almost the population of US) in last ten years. A high growth of 8% in GDP which India is acheiving, is a good thing economically but its other effects especially seen thorugh the eyes of visotrs like me and my freinds is not so rosy. much o
Another aspect is cultural change with respect to indian family system.
