It always amazes me when westerners protest “sweatshop” factories in places like India, as if the employees of such factories have air conditioning when they return home come evening!

As long as a workplace is clean and safe, you won’t find poor Indians who desperately need employment complaining. Air conditioning is not even on their minds in the first place, some don’t even know what it is. That being said, if a multi-national can afford it, they should install it in their overseas factories. But then you would probably get the entire families of employees camping out there all day just to enjoy the benefits of temperature control, something those employees have never, and most likely will never, enjoy in their own homes.

We Indians are expert at one thing; ADJUSTING.

While westerners die without their ACs in hot weather, we simply adjust, adjust, adjust.

Dev

There is such a stark difference between metro and village life in India that you almost feel as if you are entering a different country when you arrive in one from the other.

Villages are better at least on the cleanliness level. Small towns, or villages that are turning into towns are the absolute worst. There is no recovering from open sewers during the monsoon season when the streets are flooded with sewage up to your knees.

So “India Then and Now” type of articles really only apply to a few metros. For the rest of us it’s more like “India Then and Then”.

Oddly enough some of these people are vegetarian solely for “ritual purity” reasons, which irks me, a vegetarian for ethical reasons. You would think that they would be vegetarians from the heart, with a concern for the welfare of animals, but some of them will go so far as to even kick and throw stones at street dogs yet boast of a shakahari diet. This is one of those things about the desh I will never understand. Better for such people to just be straight and eat meat rather than carry on with some hypocritical “purity” standard.

I thought Jains were vegan and abstained from even milk?

At least two of my closest friends in Mumbai, who were Jain, did just that. Weird to hear of a Jain eating eggs.

As long as they are not preparing and eating meat within the veg only complex, what is the harm? The complex requires that within it’s walls, only vegetarian meals are prepared and eaten. Outside do whatever you want! I would still rent to them as long as they were following the rules of the complex while within it.

The smell of flesh cooking actually makes alot of vegetarians sick to our stomachs.

We are fully within our rights to build vegetarian only accomodations. It’s like saying vegetarian restaurants are discriminating against non-vegetarians. Well, if you want to eat vegetarian food, you are welcome, if not, there is the Mickey D’s across the street.

It’s not like there are no apartments for meat eaters in Mumbai. In fact, the veg only apartments are few in number, very few. I’ve not heard about any meat eater who even wanted to rent there in the first place. Let’s not make this into something it isn’t.

We need something like this over here!