"The billionaire industrialist Mukesh Ambani will soon take up residence at his recently completed Mumbai abode, a £1.2 billion glass tower said to have been inspired by the Hanging Gardens of Babylon. Looking over a city where more than half the population lives in slums, it is a soaring monument to the growing chasm dividing India's rich and poor. ...For many, however, the gleaming tower will be an uncomfortable reminder that India's economic renaissance has delivered extraordinary benefits to a handful of hugely wealthy "Bollygarchs" but little to the 800 million Indians who live on not much more than £1 a day." (Times, 14 October) RD
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