Out of India

The Globe and Mail’s Stephanie Nolen was posted to Delhi when the world was hailing its economic rise, which ought to lead to social transformation. But the country’s gross inequities of class and gender, and its reluctance to confront them, made her fear it would defy that rule. As she departs for her next assignment, she recalls a place that drove her to despair, and the hope she discovered in one of its lowliest corners