ABSTRACT
Since the opening of the Indian economy to global capital in 1991, documenting the meteoric rise of India to the global stage has become an elaborate daily affair in the English language press in India; the country’s new achievements are mapped in loving detail as the economic growth rate rises and rises. The press tends to use the singular ‘India’ in its documentation, erasing quietly the multifarious lives of the Indians who comprise this entity. Until, that is, such multiplicity reacts to the government-supported transformation of their lived-in landscape as the structures of a once quasi-socialist state are removed and a new hardware for a capitalized and transnational global economy is put in its place.
