Mother India's Children: Meeting Today's Generation in India

By: Edward Rice

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Synopsis: Yoga, books of meditation and the music of India are becoming increasingly popular in the United States, particularly among young people. To discover how young people who have lived within this other culture think, Edward Rice, the author and photographer of this book, spent time in India talking with teenagers. In these "interviews" -cool, casual raps by a gifted observer -the author asked all kinds of questions, and came up with an intense and personal portrait of a country; revealed with an immediacy and intimacy that will surprise most American readers, on either side of the generation gap. TRADITIONAL INDIA A young Muslim girl, almost too shy to speak; a Brahmin wife, married at 14; a teenage guru fast becoming an expert on the 4,000 year old prayers and chants taught by the Vedas. BIG CITY INDIA Upper class teenage rebels, office workers, students, young Sikhs and Parsis: castes and classes juggled together in crowded cities. CHANGING INDIA A Muslim girl who defies tradition by entering a beauty contest-and wins; an elephant boy from the jungles; students in villages and towns trying to find a balance between India's past and India's present. People talking, people walking, people caught by the special magic in a photograph; a time and culture at once summed up and left mysterious: Mother India's Children.