MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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The Caste Buster
By artappraiser on Sat, 01/01/2011 - 6:16pm |By Anand Giridharadas, New York Times Sunday Magazine, preview of January 2, 2010 issue
Ravindra Misal rejected tradition to become a self-made man. With his “personality contests” and idiomatic-English lessons, he’s trying to help others do the same.
...Misal embodies the type of person who will truly transform India: not an engineer or a financier, but an average person who refuses to be satisfied with the status he was born to. Umred rioted because its people had somehow acquired the courage of their own dissatisfaction. But what kind of India will they build?...
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http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/02/magazine/02Striver-t.html
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