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ARE YOU NICE BECAUSE YOU ARE RICH?

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  “People who advocate simplicity have money in the bank; the money came first, not the simplicity.” ―  Douglas Coupland,  The Gum Thief Ki-taek : She's rich, but still nice. Chung-sook:  Not ‘rich, but still nice.’ She's nice because she's rich. Hell, if I had all this money. I'd be nice, too! -   From the movie ‘Parasite’ W hile my wife and I were entering inside the grand lobby area of R City Mall in Mumbai, a very delightful sight – did I say 'delightful'? – greeted us. About hundred little school-children from one of the poorest neighbourhood-areas had been brought there, apparently, to give them a feel of what a mall was – or was it what an affluent life was? I don’t know what these little angels, in their soiled school uniform, were brought there for… A couple of teachers had made the kids sit on the floor in a beautifully-disciplined manner… Kids had a box of snacks and Frooti in ha...
THE WILD, WAYSIDE FLOWERS
There is, always, something extra-ordinary in the wild, wayside flowers...