INDIA BECOMING: A PORTRAIT OF LIFE IN MODERN INDIA
Book ID/图书代码： 00200013B62238
English Summary/英文概要： The East Coast Road has changed. Twenty-five years ago, whenwas a child growing up at its edge, it was a potholed tar road that meandered across the South Indian countryside, cutting through rice fields and coconut plantations and sleepy fishing villages.
The views were stunning—a rippled ocean, the grey waters of the Bay of Bengal, shimmering under the harsh coastal sun.
Sometime in the 1990s, government contractors descended upon the road. They surveyed neighbouring fields and farms, they bulldozed surrounding huts. Villages were cut in half, families were uprooted. Hundreds of ancient trees were brought down. Activists protested, but they were told the social and ecological disruption was the price of progress.
By the time I moved back to India, in the winter of 2003, after more than a decade in America, the country road I knew as a child had become a 160-kilometre highway. Politicians extolled it as a model for modern India—an ambitious collaboration between government and private companies, the kind of infrastructure the country needed to develop its economy.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 东海岸公路变化很大。二十五年以前，孩子在它的边缘长大，这是一条坑坑洼洼的柏油路，蜿蜒穿过印度南部农村，通过稻田，椰子种植园和昏昏欲睡的渔村。
这个观点是惊人的——涟漪轻起的海岸，灰色水域的孟加拉湾在耀眼的阳光下闪闪发光。
在20世纪90年代的某个时候，政府承包商到来了，他们调查了邻近的田野和农场，他们用推土机推平周围的木屋。村庄消失了一半，家族被连根拔起。数以百计的古树被砍掉。活动家们抗议，但他们被告知，生态的破坏是社会进步的代价。
在美国生活了十多年后，我在2003年的冬天搬到了印度，当我是个孩子时就知道那条乡间小路有160公里长。政治家颂扬这种做法，他们认为这是印度现代化模式——雄心勃勃的政府和私营公司之间的合作，国家需要基础设施来发展经济。（LNL）
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About the Author/作者介绍： 阿卡什•卡普尔是“国际先驱论坛报”的“来自印度”专栏的前任作者，现在这本书被收录到“纽约时报”的“一周回顾”中了。他也是“大西洋”，“经济学家”，“纽约客”和“纽约时报书评“的专栏作家。他拥有哈佛大学社会人类学学士学位和牛津大学的法学博士学位，这也让他以罗德学者的身份出现。他也为包括联合国在内的组织咨询了新闻和媒体法律。他现在住在印度南部的本地治里。Akash Kapur is the former writer of the “Letter from India” column for the International Herald Tribune, which has been picked up in the Week in Review section of The New York Times on occasion. He has also written for The Atlantic, The Economist, The New Yorker, and The New York Times Book Review. He holds a BA in Social Anthropology from Harvard University, and a doctorate in Law from Oxford University, which he attended as a Rhodes Scholar. He consults on development and media law for a number of organizations, including the United Nations. He lives outside Pondicherry in Southern India.
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