The Indian’s common challenge: after an age, how to parent your parents...
We are united not only by our love of spicy food, cricket and movies, but also by the fact that many of us are parenting our parents
Lawrence Liang, the winner of this year’s Infosys Prize for the social sciences, said something interesting in his acceptance speech. The slickly produced and perfectly paced Infosys Science Foundation award ceremony had much of Bengaluru in breathless attendance. This year, the gender balance was exquisite, with three women and three men each winning Rs 65 lakh tax-free prize with its boat-loads of prestige. When I mentioned this to one of the smiling schoolgirls, she pointed out that every person on stage was a man. Indeed all the jury chairs were men, as was every person on stage, save when the women walked up to accept their awards. Small steps, I felt like telling this impatient, bright-eyed lass of about 14, with her neatly folded braids and blue salwar kameez school uniform.