Yes, this is India.  The grounds of one of the many luxurious hotels I had the privlege to stay in.  The places for the “haves.”

And, this is also India.  Traffic on a modern highway comes to a complete stop because a herdsman is herding his camels down the road.  In scoots a Muslim (the woman wears the hijab) family of 3 on a motor scooter.  This captures the real India. The everyday India.  Both the family on a scooter and the herdsman represent what could be called “the middle class.”  What I mean is this:  if India had a middle class, which it doesn’t, it would have to be comprised of people who own something.  A herd of camels have a lot of value.  A scooter has value.  That means the owners of these two commodities are not beggars and presumably do not live in a slum.

And here we have another beautiful moment of India.

And yet another view of the same beautiful moment.

And, yet, this is also India.  The real India.  The everyday India of the majority of the people.  The “have nots.”  India will break your heart if you let it.  I let it.