March 19, 2010

For India’s Newly Rich Farmers, Limos Won’t Do

NOIDA, India — BhishamSingh Yadav, recently earned about  $109,000 selling only 3 acres of his ancestral land.

But, as the father of a 19-year groom, he is stressed this morning.


  • His rented  Lexus got stuck behind a bullock cart.
  • He has hired a truck to blast Hindi pop, but it is too big to maneuver through his village.
  • At least his grandest gesture, evidence of his upward mobility, is circling overhead ---


The helicopter has arrived!

.http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/19/world/asia/19india.html?hp

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