India Rising: Tales from a Changing Nation (37 page)

Dalai Lama,
16
,
310

Dalrymple, William,
39

Daniel,
280
,
281
,
282
,
289

Darjeeling,
5
,
314
,
320

Deccan 360,
325

Deccan Chargers,
145

Delhi:

Chittaranjan Park,
307
;

‘Citizen Journalists’ celebration,
298
;

coffee stores,
173
;

Commonwealth Games,
150
,
154
;

Fashion Week,
174
–87,
326
;

immigrants,
115
–16;

National School of Drama,
126
;

Nehru Place,
113
;

Parliament,
257
;

policy-makers,
282
;

Public School,
274
;

refugee camps,
303
;

religious theme park,
323
;

South Extension,
300
;

Videocon Tower,
147
;

villager’s view of,
254
;

Yamuna River,
306

Dev, Kapil,
149

Dev, Mr,
111
,
113

Devaji,
253
–4,
257

Dhankhar, Dr Om Prakash,
226

Dhawan, Diva,
178

Dhoni, Mahendra Singh,
141
,
145

Dish TV,
223

divorce:

attitudes,
207
;

cases,
198
–9,
206
,
207
–8;

cost of,
200
–1,
204
;

court hearings,
191
–6;

domestic violence,
199
–
200
;

rate,
196
,
201
–2;

religious issues,
216
;

status of divorcees,
224

Dommara community,
258
,
258
–60

Doordarshan TV channel,
231
,
297
,
326

dowries,
115
,
118
,
226
–7

Drukpa, His Holiness the Gyalwang,
312
,
327

EarthMatters
,
305
–6

Eddie,
185
–6

education (
see also
literacy, teachers):

Buddhist,
319
;

business education,
116
;

Care and Share initiatives,
261
–3,
265
–8;

further,
267
;

graduate employment,
268
;

graduate numbers,
30
,
268
;

holistic secular,
284
–5;

Infosys training campus,
30
–5,
279
;

lack of,
54
,
73
,
233
,
238
;

legislation,
257
;

marriage prospects,
224
;

parental hopes,
55
;

poverty trap,
268
–9;

rural,
91
,
233
,
237
–8,
243
,
257
,
266
;

strategic vision of,
281
–2;

subsidised community school,
284
;

Teach for India volunteer programme,
270
–6;

teaching standards,
276
–8;

tools,
289
;

women’s,
198
,
204

Elle
,
175
,
179
,
326

Elle India
,
176

Export Processing Zone,
2

Facebook,
213
,
222
,
283
,
320
,
327

Fame Gurukul,
134

Film City,
58
–9,
81
–2

Forest Act,
231

Forster, E. M.,
191

Gadchiroli District:

administration (collectorate),
240
–5,
248
,
249
–50,
327
;

education,
243
,
257
,
266
;

forest land management,
253
;

Naxals,
243
–9

Gadchiroli town:

description
239
–41;

hospital,
252
;

Oxford Institute,
252

Gandhi, Mahatma:

influence,
108
;

Talisman,
306
–7;

teachings,
99
–
100
,
161
,
172
,
279

Gandhi, Rikin,
289
,
290

Gandhinagar,
323

gangs,
53

Ganguly, Sourav,
141
,
145

Gaolachi,
80

Gautham,
218
,
220

Ghade, Virdhawal,
154

Ghoom,
314
–16,
320
,
322
,
324

Gilani, Vivek,
289

Global Infonet,
173
,
326

Go Sports Foundation,
153
,
155

Godrej Consumer Products,
100

Golf Links Business Park,
23
,
24

Gonds,
229
–30,
242

Google,
25
,
27

Goonda Act,
213

Gopinath, Captain (Gopi):

Air Deccan,
15
–
18
,
20
;

appearance,
11
;

background and career,
12
–
13
,
15
–
19
,
20
–1,
22
–3,
35
,
325
;

enthusiasm,
19
–
20
,
27
,
292
;

on entrepreneurial drive,
18
–
20
;

home,
11
–
12
,
17
;

on Indian economic liberalisation,
33
;

on Indian work attitudes,
19
–
20
,
78
;

interview with,
7
,
11
–
12
;

on New India,
14
–
15
,
17
,
21
,
171
,
323
;

reading,
12
,
19
,
20
,
25

Goregaon,
105
,
326

Govind,
69
–
70

Goyal, Gagan,
289

Gray, John,
17

Guetta, David,
321

Guinness Book of Records
,
312

Gujarat riots (2002),
54

Guruvaiah (gatekeeper),
258
–61

Guruvaiah (sales chief):

appearance,
91
;

Cholleru visit,
90
–1,
92
–5,
99
,
100
;

on rural market,
91
–2;

sales strategy,
95
–8,
100

Gutgutia, Asha,
196
–
201
,
206
,
207
,
228