I feel that author Agnes Chan shows very limited knowledge about India. In her Sept. 6 article, she makes sweeping statements such as: "Fifty-four percent of Bombay's 16 million residents live in the slums. Only 25 percent live in what would pass in developed countries as apartments and houses."
This is not true. She needs to understand the culture differences of other countries before saying such a thing. When a person stays in a small house, it is not a slum. When the water from the public tap system is not pure, that does not mean the whole country is living in a slum. Any Indian, including myself, who has spent years in Bombay (and the city's name was changed to Mumbai years ago) would know better.
j.p. saas
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