Samvaad: A Conversation

I always find it interesting to read the thoughts of people as they find new experiences. Whether they be travelogues or diaries, the comments provide much insight into other peoples' worlds. On that note, here is a set of dispatches by Akash Kapur, a writer who is travelling around Southern India during the election there. His is clearly not an un-biased report, but he's pretty clear in differentiating his opinion from the thoughts of the people he meets.

There is a new post everyday but here are the links for the first three days:

• An Unabashedly Capitalist India Goes to the Polls


• The Process Is More Important Than the Outcome


• India May Be Shining, But Not in the Countryside

If there are any readers who are currently in India and wouldn't mind relating some of their thoughts about the environment there right now, we'd very much appreciate your insight.