Antilla the Hun Mukesh Ambanis 27-storey home on Altamont Road. Its bright lights, say the neighbours, have stolen the night.
CAPITALISM
capitalist economy: A Ghost Story
Rockefeller to Mandela, Vedanta to Anna Hazare.... How long can the cardinals of corporate church doctrine buy up our protests?
ARUNDHATI ROY
Is it a house or a home? A temple to the new India, or a warehouse for its ghosts? Ever since Antilla arrived on Altamont Road in Mumbai, exuding conundrum and quiet menace, things have not been the same. Here we are, the friend who took me in that respect said, Pay your respects to our new Ruler.
Antilla belongs to Indias richest man, Mukesh Ambani. I had infer about this most expensive dwelling ever built, the cardinal floors, three helipads, nine lifts, hanging gardens, b completelyrooms, weather rooms, gymnasiums, half-dozen floors of parking, and the six hundred servants. Nothing had prepared me for the vertical lawnâ€"a soaring, 27-storey-high argue of divulge attached to a vast metal grid. The grass was dry in patches; bits had fallen off in suitable rectangles. Clearly, Trickled protest hadnt worked.
But Gush-Up certainly has. Thats why in a nation of 1.2 billion, Indias 100 richest people own assets equivalent to one-fourth of the GDP.
The word on the street (and in the New York Times) is, or at least was, that after all that effort and gardening, the Ambanis dont full of life in Antilla. No one knows for sure. People still whisper about ghosts and boastful luck, Vaastu and Feng Shui. Maybe its all Karl Marxs fault. (All that cussing.) Capitalism, he said, has conjured up such gigantic means of production and of exchange, that it is like the wizard who is no longer able to control the powers of the nether gentlemans gentleman whom he has called up by his spells.
In India, the 300 one thousand million of us who belong to the new, post-IMF reforms middle classâ€"the marketâ€"live side by side with spirits of the nether world, the poltergeists...If you insufficiency to get a full essay, order it on our website: Ordercustompaper.com
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