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

[uttam borthakur]

Chandan Da
   
  Such are the reasons why I could not agree whole-heartedly with Alpana Baideo (Alpana Sarangapani) when she opined that what is Rs.10 lakh or Rs.14 lakh for a minister when middle-class of India speak in terms of crores. Some of things that sounded theoretical at one time have become too obvious with the onward march of globalisation ( net free flow of capital from periphery to the centre than the much vaunted opposite way) and I do not know whether it augurs well for the people who sing its paen. And it is now more or less accepted fact that parallel governance run in a substantial part of India with their considerable influence in other parts aggregating to about one-third of the land area. If not otherwise, it at least indicates that all is not well in the state of Bohemia.
   
  In these days of orweliian newspaek in India, it is interesting to note that someone reported about the contrast between the gated community and the serving slums. Thanks for the link.   

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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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