But California is 8,000 miles—and a galaxy away—from India. “In South Mumbai or Bangalore it’s easy to feel you are in New York or Silicon Valley. We drink the same coffee, listen to the same music, watch th
Public but noncivil, as Bauman refers to them, these hypermodern spaces are now part of a global urban sprawl from Bangalore's software city to Gurgaon's call center zones in India; the most dramatic regional example is China's Pearl River Delta zone. I have chosen Bauman's essay as a...
But California is 8,000 miles—and a galaxy away—from India. “In South Mumbai or Bangalore it’s easy to feel you are in New York or Silicon Valley. We drink the same coffee, listen to the same music, watch the same TV,” says Sinha, the minister of state for Finance. “But st...