Arundhati Roy: "Di Delhi mobil semakin besar dan ramping, hotel semaki...

"Di Delhi mobil semakin besar dan ramping, hotel semakin posher, gerbang semakin tinggi, dan penjaga bukan lagi chowkidar tua, penjaga, tetapi mereka adalah orang-orang yang membawa senjata. Namun orang miskin dikemas ke dalam setiap celah seperti kutu di kota. Orang tidak melihatnya lagi. Seolah-olah Anda menyinari cahaya sangat terang di satu tempat, kegelapan semakin dalam."

--- Arundhati Roy

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Versi Bahasa Inggris

In Delhi the cars are getting bigger and sleeker, the hotels are getting posher, the gates are getting higher, and the guards are no longer the old chowkidars, the watchmen, but they are fellows with guns. And yet the poor are packed into every crevice like lice in the city. People don't see that anymore. It's as if you shine a light very brightly in one place, the darkness deepens around.