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The Indian’s common challenge: after an age, how to parent your parents...

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Feb 17, 2018 10:23 PM IST

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.

Comedy livened with moments of tenderness that borders on the sublime also unites us Indians(Photo Imaging: Parth Garg)
Comedy livened with moments of tenderness that borders on the sublime also unites us Indians(Photo Imaging: Parth Garg)
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    Shoba Narayan is Bangalore-based award-winning author. She is also a freelance contributor who writes about art, food, fashion and travel for a number of publications.

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