A few months ago, my neighbour asked me, ‘Do you have beds in India?' Last week, a white friend asked me, albeit jokingly and drunk, ‘Did you have some spicy curry for dinner before you came?' Do these two examples, among many, reveal a symptomatic Western perception of India as defined by its extremities - poverty, spicy food, idolatry of cricket heroes? Read more
Rabindranath Tagore
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