[Assam] NYTimes.com: Inside Gate, India's Good Life; Outside, the Servants' Slums

[umesh sharma]

In Washington DC and New York  the contrast may not be so obvious but  Harlem  is a US slum near the riches of Manhattan.  People do beg in  downtown DC. DC is the crime capital of the US. Does that  make Bill Gates or  Bill Clinton  apologetic  or for that matter  Thomas  Friedman  or  Al Gore  who stay  in  multimillion dollar homes and  buy  carbon credits.

Poverty is relative -unless someone is dying of hunger. For sickness look at PG county govt hospitals - 10 miles from White House which as per a local College Park resident ( I haven't been there) where patients sit in corridors for days without treatment.

Umesh

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The Good Life of Gurgaon


INTERNATIONAL / ASIA PACIFIC | June 9, 2008
Inside Gate, India's Good Life; Outside, the Servants' Slums
By SOMINI SENGUPTA
Gated communities have emerged in India, giving its growing upper-middle-class giving Western amenities, along with maids and chauffeurs who live in nearby slums.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/09/world/asia/09gated.html?ex=1213588800&en=223c319279fc0dfc&ei=5070&emc=eta1




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