Day 1,708: slick, gleaming, benign

The wealthy south is where you will find the slick new India, with its startups, it campuses and gleaming iPhone-assembly plants.

In a more benign future, resolving this divide could moderate India’s harsh identity politics.

To see India’s future, go south

Artwork of the day 
The Slick Ear
Charles M. Russell
Date: 1914
Style: Romanticism
Genre: genre painting

Word of the day 
slick: operating or performing skilfully and effectively, without problems and without seeming to need effort: smooth, wet and slippery (= difficult to moveon without sliding):
gleaming: bright and shiny from being cleaned:
benign: pleasant and kind:

Quote of the day
“Somebody just gave me a shower radio. Thanks a lot. Do you really want music in the shower? I guess there's no better place to dance than a slick surface next to a glass door.”

― Jerry Seinfeld