Hollie McKay
Oct 13, 2025
It’s easy to fall into a guilted love with India. Arundhati Roy wrote that it is a country that “lives in several centuries at a time.” It’s the world’s most populace place spanning Bollywood to beggars, vibrant temples and pulsating clubs and silent ashrams tucked away by the snow-veiled mountains of the Himalayas.
It’s a place where I can walk into the most magnificent sari store, where the wild silks are sourced from West Bengal and each pleat is tailored to size, and walk out to see the bare bottom of a bone-thin child bathing beside his mother in a dirty park pond.
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