As the globalizing world discovers a twenty-first-century India full of high-tech computer geeks, efficient businessmen, colorful fashions, and glitzy entertainment – a far cry from the old stock images of fakirs on beds of nails, maharajahs on elephants, and mendicants with begging bowls – it is also finding an India obsessed with what most regard as a nineteenth-century sport.
在全球化的世界发现21世纪的印度充满了高科技的电脑极客，能干的商人，多彩的时装以及令人炫目的各种娱乐的时候－与苦行僧的苦行生活，大象上的王公以及拿着乞讨碗的乞丐的旧有印象大不相同－它也发现印度沉迷于一个被大多数人认为是19世纪的运动的运动。