Indian Scavengers Doing What Officials Can’t
Letter from India, The International Herald Tribune PONDICHERRY, INDIA — About a hundred kilometers up the road from this town, there is a popular picnic spot. It is set in a small forest of casuarina trees, with good views of the shimmering ocean. It could be a scenic spot, but there is a problem: virtually […]
The Success of Ordinary Indians
Letter from India, The International Herald Tribune PONDICHERRY, India — I spent the start of this decade in the same place that I spent the start of the last: outside the town of Pondicherry, in the countryside, amid the sound of firecrackers and the glow of oil lamps from surrounding villages. Apart from my […]