Why I Left India Again »

As I started reading this article, it reminded me of Suketu Mehta’s Maximum City. Perhaps every individual who returns from a foreign land looks at India, and Mumbai in particular, in the a similar fashion.

This article’s written by a certain Sumedh Mungee. The following paragraph really made me think about the bridge between the rich and the poor:

“India’s wealth and lifestyle disparity is still impossibly great; I probably spent more on pizza than on my maid. She knew this too, because she was often the one who handed the pizza delivery guy his money. Everyone in India has to deal with this, but I coped in the worst possible way: by dehumanizing her and other people like her, ever so slightly, ever so subtly—chronic amoebiasis of the soul.”

Anyway, go ahead and read the entire article.