This is an aside titled 'Hamilton Court, another Indian Gated Community' dated 6/9/08

NYT reports on another “self-contained island” in India: Hamilton Court. Although it’s not quite as strange as Auroville, it’s a powerful example of the gulf between the country’s rich and poor. “’Women and children are not encouraged to go outside,’ said Madan Mohan Bhalla, president of the Hamilton Court Resident Welfare Association. ‘If they want to have a walk, they can walk inside. It’s a different world outside the gate.’” More here, “Gurgaon itself is a miserable cancer of construction dust, gleaming shopping malls, and failed infrastructure….The flipside of the equation is this: look how many more people can now afford to live in comfort!”

Posted by Joanne on Jun. 9, 2008 Tagged: , , , , , , , ,

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