Before I moved to India, I was told that the only thing that one can definitively say about the country is that “everything and its opposite is true of India.”

I can’t say I’ve learned much by way of a refutation of that statement.

India is frenetic, chaotic, and overpopulated–except for the parts that are laid-back, peaceful, and remote.

India is a land of crushing poverty, but then there’s the opulent wealth.