>India's problem is poverty, not inequality. I would agree, but life in a city like Kolkata is very different from a place like tribal Odisha. Sheer numbers (a

>India's problem is poverty, not inequality. I would agree, but life in a city like Kolkata is very different from a place like tribal Odisha. Sheer numbers (as opposed to percentages) are more important when you get in the hundreds of millions.