Hong Kong - a city caught in the dense web of its own unipolar vertical growth - a micro-packaged consumption paradise blissfully unaware of the wasteful environmental hell it is leaving behind; a card-swapping, self-consciously 'modern' swish metropolis celebrating the primitive selfish ideals of an individual centric growth. A city lost between its instinctively chaotic Chinese soul and a pseudo-Western ordered jugalbandi of contrasting façades, each truthful yet patently false.
Tuesday, 26 April 2016
Neighbours, not friends
India and China, neighbours not friends, prisoners to colonial era vintage resentments and stereotypes, willing victims of white-skin worship and contemporary geo-political strategic games of one-upmanship...
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