By Michael Hardy In New Delhi
I’ve seen extremes of poverty and wealth in my travels around India — unwashed children sleeping in the streets of Calcutta, IT executives chauffeured in Mercedes Benzes through the Bangalore traffic — but only in New Delhi have I seen the two worlds set in such close proximity.
Our first [...]
By Michael Hardy in Calcutta
A few years ago, American director Wes Anderson made a film called The Darjeeling Limited in which three estranged brothers — played by Owen Wilson, Jason Schwartzman, and Adrian Brody — mend their differences and find spiritual enlightenment during a cross-Indian rail journey. Ensconced in a private berth, the brothers engage [...]
