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The employees at the Callus call centre in Bangalore juggle false identities, abusive customers and the tugs of family and community. An Anglo-Indian trainer is aghast at the overt Americanisms adopted by her eager trainees. A van driver who yearns for a son petetitions the god Ayyappan by playing devotional songs inside the van. A brash, Jim Hendrix-loving agent tries to change the music and stokes the driver's deep resentment. A young girl travels across the great divide between the slum she lives in and the shiny glass complex where she works as a toilet cleaner. Through fifteen linked stories, BANGALORE CALLING explores the social costs of outsourcing - the erosion of cultures, the displacement of vernacular languages and accents - in a world that's not yet flat.
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Bangalore Calling Brinda S. Narayan, Brinda S. Narayan
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- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2011
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- Titel
- Bangalore Calling Brinda S. Narayan
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Autor*innen
- Brinda S. Narayan
- Verlag
- Hachette India
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2011
- Einband
- Paperback
- Seitenzahl
- 320
- ISBN10
- 9350092190
- ISBN13
- 9789350092194
- Reihe
- Schlagwörter
- Belletristik, Kurzgeschichten
- Bewertung
- 3,35 von 5 Sternen
- Beschreibung
- The employees at the Callus call centre in Bangalore juggle false identities, abusive customers and the tugs of family and community. An Anglo-Indian trainer is aghast at the overt Americanisms adopted by her eager trainees. A van driver who yearns for a son petetitions the god Ayyappan by playing devotional songs inside the van. A brash, Jim Hendrix-loving agent tries to change the music and stokes the driver's deep resentment. A young girl travels across the great divide between the slum she lives in and the shiny glass complex where she works as a toilet cleaner. Through fifteen linked stories, BANGALORE CALLING explores the social costs of outsourcing - the erosion of cultures, the displacement of vernacular languages and accents - in a world that's not yet flat.