Soh Kam Yung reviewed India World® by Amit Gupta
On being treated as an immigrant, even in your presumed 'homeland'.
3 stars
The usual story of an immigrant who tries to make it in his new adopted home. Only here, the immigrant is of Indian descent from America, and his adopted home is India, where he has migrated to work at "India World", a Disneyland type theme park in India meant to showcase all that is good about a rising, and confident, India that employs 'returning' Indians.
But as in some stories of immigrants, prejudice against immigrants raises its head, and it ties back to the troubles migration had on his family when they moved from India to the US. In the end, he has to decide whether to remain an up and rising migrant in India, or return to America (which, to him, is his homeland) and help his father make it a better place.
An unexpected story of 'reverse' migrations, set in a future where India is now a rising …
The usual story of an immigrant who tries to make it in his new adopted home. Only here, the immigrant is of Indian descent from America, and his adopted home is India, where he has migrated to work at "India World", a Disneyland type theme park in India meant to showcase all that is good about a rising, and confident, India that employs 'returning' Indians.
But as in some stories of immigrants, prejudice against immigrants raises its head, and it ties back to the troubles migration had on his family when they moved from India to the US. In the end, he has to decide whether to remain an up and rising migrant in India, or return to America (which, to him, is his homeland) and help his father make it a better place.
An unexpected story of 'reverse' migrations, set in a future where India is now a rising power (with little mention of China), while America itself seems to be caught in the rut of decline, making the choices for the immigrant more stark.