“Sunny is the leader of a small band of revelers, Indians who live like the foreigners, still something of a rarity in those days. Who live like the foreigners, but who are not like the foreigners at all, four men and one woman, something dangerously new and bold; young, rich and glamorous Indians, not afraid to show it, not afraid to slum it, welcome everywhere. Travelers for whom authenticity is not a question, content to sit in cafés with the foreigners and smoke chillum and eat their backpacker food, who arrived in big, shiny cars without scratches instead of buses and bikes and wore good clothing and stayed in the best new hotels in the village, ones with bright pine balconies and expensive bars.”
Deepti Kapoor, “Age of Vice”, 2023
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