It is a warped field in India of opposing viewpoints. In the cities you have engineers, scientists, modern thinkers who want so much for India to fully enter the modern age, but if you drive a few miles into the villages, you find ancient traditions and customs living on, undisturbed. As India, the second fastest growing country in the world, begins to take up it's role as an influential country, we will have to see how they deal with this sort of thing. Already they have passed laws hoping to curb casteism, which is the largest concern, in my opinion. Having visited there myself, I feel that the treatment and respect of women is actually culturally and historically positive, even in the rural areas of Kerala that I saw. Far closer to the modern West compared to the Taliban regime.

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I really enjoyed this and the Kite Runner. I know they're different, but as I read them together, I tend to think of them as whole. Here's a brief article I wrote on them:

http://www.bukisa.com/articles/334163_t ... many-years

This is an excellent review, it is very well written. Do you review books often? Do you review for any other sites?