A tale of many kindnesses
August 9th 2010 Mumbai
Our plane, bucking and twitching wildly, finally dropped out from the thick monsoon clouds that cloaked the city to reveal a sodden mess of concrete and tin. Lurching ever closer to the ground we flew above an untidy unity of beige tower blocks, gleaming malls and, filling the spaces, tin shack villages, shanty towns, slums. As we neared the runway the turbulence subsided and
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