Climate Change and Asian Cities: So Near Yet So Far

You can run up to the packed compartments and find many hands stretching out to grab you on board, unfolding outward from the train like petals ... And at the moment of contact, they do not know if the hand that is reaching for theirs belongs to a Hindu or Muslim or Christian or Brahmin or untouchable or whether you were born in this city or arrived only this morning. All they know is that you're trying to get to the city of gold, and that's enough. Come on board, they say. We'll adjust (Mehta, 2004, p. 496).