The Great Gatsby
0The Beautiful and the Damned: A Portrait of the New India
The Great Gatsby: A Rich Man in India
Reasoning for title – story is similar to Great Gatsby. He’s trying to interview the richest man in India, but his reputation is very contradicting – fraud or the truth? Tells his story about childhood and how his dad was considered a fraud, then he built up the school after his father stepped down. Originally he wanted to do things with cigars, then it went South and now he has a real cigar business, “the best cigars aren’t always the most expensive.” A lot of people thought getting the most expensive was what they wanted, not what was best. The man was describing his house but the way he was describing it was like his office, is the house really …show more content…
Several people that didn’t know anything about engineering and didn’t make it to college, so he brought in people to teach English. The maid would talk with the Indian family – similar to Brazil.
Urbanizing several villages. Showed the guy around his home and the house was worth millions, “it will be much more with this and this and it’s all Italian.” – better quality can’t get in India. A lot of the chapters seem to talk about how poor India is and what everywhere else has to offer. No one is happy where he or she is.
The “Gandhi” computer – cheaper and affordable for people of India. People would have their data on one card and could use it anywhere.
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lives in Calcutta. talks about how little money she has. has to count coins to make sure that she can get to where she needs to go by bus. started new job. her boss was a show off- doing pushups the first day when she walked in. worked with computer instructors that wouldn’t stand up to the boss. tons of businesses in this time that offered computer lessons to people who could not become engineers. the computer classes were in regular neighborhood houses. it says the instructors were only a few levels higher than the students and …show more content…
77% of India was paid less that 20 rupees (50 cents) a day, keep in mind the government usually downplays the number as well. “They are invisible in the sense that they seem to count for nothing at all,” (pg. 173). A person known from
Malda
is usually “an underclass even in relation to […] migrants, […] so desperate that factory owners often use them as scabs during strikes,” (pg. 174). They are illegal immigrants from Bangladesh who crossed the border to India. At the steel factory
, the Union asked for higher wages and when they were denied they went on strike. Police went in and talked to the workers, bribed and threatened them. When one lady claimed another worker had raped her, the police blamed the entire group and they all kept quiet and went back to work (pg. 175).
The Barracks:
The workers at the Vinayak steel factory in Kathur, “eat and sleep and shit there,” (pg. 175). If they aren’t in the work areas they are found in the barracks . There are 2 rows of concrete cubicles. When the author came to interview everyone, they all avoided him because they were afraid he was someone
The Great Gatsby: A Rich Man in India
Reasoning for title – story is similar to Great Gatsby. He’s trying to interview the richest man in India, but his reputation is very contradicting – fraud or the truth? Tells his story about childhood and how his dad was considered a fraud, then he built up the school after his father stepped down. Originally he wanted to do things with cigars, then it went South and now he has a real cigar business, “the best cigars aren’t always the most expensive.” A lot of people thought getting the most expensive was what they wanted, not what was best. The man was describing his house but the way he was describing it was like his office, is the house really …show more content…
Several people that didn’t know anything about engineering and didn’t make it to college, so he brought in people to teach English. The maid would talk with the Indian family – similar to Brazil.
Urbanizing several villages. Showed the guy around his home and the house was worth millions, “it will be much more with this and this and it’s all Italian.” – better quality can’t get in India. A lot of the chapters seem to talk about how poor India is and what everywhere else has to offer. No one is happy where he or she is.
The “Gandhi” computer – cheaper and affordable for people of India. People would have their data on one card and could use it anywhere.
1-
lives in Calcutta. talks about how little money she has. has to count coins to make sure that she can get to where she needs to go by bus. started new job. her boss was a show off- doing pushups the first day when she walked in. worked with computer instructors that wouldn’t stand up to the boss. tons of businesses in this time that offered computer lessons to people who could not become engineers. the computer classes were in regular neighborhood houses. it says the instructors were only a few levels higher than the students and …show more content…
77% of India was paid less that 20 rupees (50 cents) a day, keep in mind the government usually downplays the number as well. “They are invisible in the sense that they seem to count for nothing at all,” (pg. 173). A person known from
Malda
is usually “an underclass even in relation to […] migrants, […] so desperate that factory owners often use them as scabs during strikes,” (pg. 174). They are illegal immigrants from Bangladesh who crossed the border to India. At the steel factory
, the Union asked for higher wages and when they were denied they went on strike. Police went in and talked to the workers, bribed and threatened them. When one lady claimed another worker had raped her, the police blamed the entire group and they all kept quiet and went back to work (pg. 175).
The Barracks:
The workers at the Vinayak steel factory in Kathur, “eat and sleep and shit there,” (pg. 175). If they aren’t in the work areas they are found in the barracks . There are 2 rows of concrete cubicles. When the author came to interview everyone, they all avoided him because they were afraid he was someone