If any of you have the dire straits album 'brother's in arms' play the title track now!there's a line that goes something like this; "we have just one world....,..... but we live in different ones"
These photos display something of that in our lives, compared with those lives of the people we serve. It's a different world, as you'll see from these photos compared to the photos in the posting below.
The first photo is of a really nice restaurant that
we went to with some friends. It is elevated on stilts, with a swimming pool at one end, and a huge fish-pond with 3 foot long catfish (alistair loved those).The second photo is taken in a kiddies play area in the top storey of a massive shopping centre that has just opened a short drive from us. Again, Freya and Alistair love it! "I want to go to giggles daddy"
a ten pin bowling alley has also just opened only a few hunded yards from our house. You can see Ranjit my friend displaying his skills here.
These Pictures show how well it is possible to live here. There is such a stark contrast between rich and poor.
Until recently in India, that was the end of it (rich and poor), but there is now a booming middle class, that is the cause for all the shopping centres, bowling alleys and the like springing up. There is also a booming housing market, and with the emerging middle class there also comes a lot of jobs for the lower classes in the service industry.
The huge devide between rich and poor seems sooooo wrong, but I believe that if the top end of Indian society improves, with time it will also drag the bottom end up with it. I would love to fast forward a few decades, and see how things have (hopefully) improved. Already there have been big changes since I first came here in 1998.
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