How Drunk-on-power Housing Societies Flex their Muscles ?

The White Tiger and its forensic scrutiny of class is now a Hollywood film but the author of the novel, Aravind Adiga, missed a trick when he portrayed his upper middle class characters’ contempt for the poor.  The real pools of pure concentrated class hatred are the middle class and nothing embodies this hatred, the desire to make the poor invisible, to airbrush them out of the landscape, than Resident Welfare Associations.   The minutes of one such RWA meeting in New Delhi ruled that, in the interests of preventing noise pollution, street …