Of course, they know much better than any visitor the many problems India still must tackle – social, environmental and economic, with many accompanying issues in the security domain. If you want a novelist’s view of this world in Mumbai, read Vikram Chandra’s Sacred Games, one of the best and most exciting novels written anywhere in the last few years.
很显然，相对于那些国外来客，这些本地商人对于印度所面对的问题——社会，环境，经济，以及来自安全领域的一系列派生问题——更加心中有数。如果你希望以一个孟买小说家的视角来解读这个世界，那么最好就找维克拉姆·昌德拉（Vikram Chandra）的《神圣游戏》来看看，这本书堪称这几年以来最好最精彩的小说之一。