The Compassion Revolution

This post goes together with this photo album . Tuk-tuks at New Delhi main railway station India is a country of extremes. It is often described as a ‘sensory overload’. You can find the richest palaces standing right next to the poorest slums. One would expect this rising world power to be a little more organized, but I found it to be not much more than a third world country, and a quite overcrowded one for that matter. It is dirty and chaotic. Rules do not seem to exist and neither does hygiene. Anything can be bargained for, traffic is mad, you can find people sleeping and animals roaming anywhere, trains and buses are overcrowded, sexual harassment omnipresent and everyone – all one billion Indians – just throws his or her garbage on the ground. Travelling through this vast country it is very hard not to see the very extreme and often squalid conditions under which these people have to live, not to mention the effects of climate change, which are slowly turning this c...