From The International Herald Tribune:
On a late evening along Marine Drive, Mumbai’s answer to the Shanghai Bund, dancer-beggars prowl with monkeys, extorting coins from passers-by. Deep potholes pit the sidewalk and the sea gently laps a crumbling wall. It is quaint, but it does not feel like a city of the future.
Shanghai was a bit like Mumbai until the Chinese government did what the Indian government cannot do: in the 1990s its planners, brushing aside any pre-existing claims, cleared the way for developers to construct in barely 10 years the gleaming, futurist metropolis of Pudong, across the river from the Bund.
