Sad metropolis
If instability, anarchy, mayhem and insecurity be the stuff of life, then we should be happy to be living in the Subcontinent, in many regards the most violent part of the globe today. Although it is also true that because there are so many of us – nearly a fourth of the world's population – this cumulative violence does get diluted when it comes down to individual experience. But I am already getting away from the point, which is: How happy would we be living in, say, staid Sydney?
Let's take a random day – 20 May, as this column is being written – to see what is roiling the minds of the residents of some randomly picked cities of Southasia, and compare them with the capital of New South Wales, as a representative city of the developed West (or North, albeit Down Under).