Both. 

Both.

Coffee Day, Park Street.

Deepbeat music pounds on the smooth walls and the young moneyed sink into soft couches. Conversation touches upon John Mayer and J.U, and coffees topped by cream and chocolate sprinkles lie idle on the lightwood tables, neglected like the glossy cell phones that gleam and blink from time to time.

Then you step out the glass door and a little girl in a frock with the zipper torn out and hair browned by malnutrition tugs at your shirt. She holds out a dirty little hand for a spare one rupee coin, and you who just paid sixty rupees for a sandwich you ate half of, walk away.

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Comment let the world speak for itself, I'd slap the person who lends her a penny...

Sat Jul 9, 2005 6:41 am MST by [.]

Comment what does one do? give her the money and make her a beggar for life? or not give her a money and grapple with the 60 rupee guilt? thats a dichotomy in itself.

Fri Jul 1, 2005 11:46 am MST by nish

Comment what does one do? give her the money and make her a beggar for life? or not give her a money and grapple with the 60 rupee guilt? thats a dichotomy in itself.

Fri Jul 1, 2005 11:46 am MST by nish

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