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ontrasting images show up everywhere in today’s India. Turn onto a city street, whether in Delhi or Bangalore. Buses, trucks, cars, rickshaws, pedes-
trians, pushcarts, and cows all share the road, surrendering the right of way at one moment and blaring horns at the next. Other contrasts are not quite so loud. In front of a store selling mobile phones, a sidewalk vender sells vegetables. In a 24-hour pharmacy, Ayurvedic medicine and
aspirin share the shelves. It’s not that one is giving way to the other, West replacing East or modern ending traditional. Rather they co-exist, side by side. “Combining different worlds and cultures at the same time, this is today and this is our future,” says 15-year-old Ashish. “New and old, we try to balance.”
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