"India allows you the luxury of a million inequalities. You can be a schoolboy selling tea to passengers sitting in a state transport bus, but you are royalty when compared to a shirtless, barefoot village boy, from what was traditionally considered an untouchable caste, living on snails and small fish - and sometimes rats."

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About Amitava Kumar

Amitava Kumar is an Indian writer and journalist. He is a Professor of English at Vassar College and is known for nonfiction and fiction focused on identity, politics, and migration.

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