A GLOBAL IDENTITY - THE INDIAN DILEMMA

The paper explores different aspects of political, cultural and economical position of India in the globalizing world. The special scope of the article is national and cultural identity of Indian subcontinent. The change of the Indian nationalistic thought is also discussed. The article offers some images of encounter of Indian culture with so called Western cultures as seen trough the lenses of Indian cultural products (i. e. Bollywoood movies) or Indian political discourse. The author evokes technological and economical encounters between the India and globalizing world - seeing them - as for example Indian IT experts' integration into global IT system, as a 'first step to globalization of the Indian mind'.