I grew up and spent the first 25 years of my life in India. I lived a short while in NYC to attend the recurse center and now I live in the UK. I saw a bit more of the tiny blue marble in the meanwhile. Hans Rosling says in Factfulness that you cannot divide the world into broad “First” and “Third” world categories anymore and the divide is closing; but as someone who got to see a fair bit of both sides of the spectrum, it is my opinion that the divide is unspeakably huge and is much ...