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Post by Petrichor Tue Nov 20, 2012 12:46 pm

http://www.thehindu.com/arts/books/manufacturing-global-indianness/article4112678.ece

"Drawing on over 130 in-depth interviews and ethnographic research conducted with Indian IT professionals in Mumbai, Bangalore, Silicon Valley and South Africa, Smitha Radhakrishnan examines the specific practices, attitudes and beliefs that foster and give rise to a socio-cultural formation that she calls India’s ‘new’ transnational class. Through a process she terms cultural streamlining, Radhakrishnan demonstrates how IT professionals transform diverse practices constituting ‘Indian culture’ into appropriate difference — a generic set of ‘Indian’ cultural norms that are palatable to Western cosmopolitan culture. At the same time these practices, which move from workplace into the private sphere of the home, are constantly reworked, upheld, and rendered authentic and appealing to national and international audiences."

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