Check out this book "in light of india " By Mexican writer Octavio Paz. Late Octavio Paz was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1990. His most recent work was “The Double Flame,” published in 1995.
http://www.salonmagazine.com/may97/wanderlust/passages970520.html
He write about India.
a survivor of the British Raj, in a meticulous and threadbare white suit, with a black umbrella,
another beggar, four half-naked would-be saints daubed with paint, red betel stains on the sidewalk,
horn battles between a taxi and a dusty bus, more bicycles, more cows, another half-naked saint,
turning the corner, the apparition of a girl like a half-opened flower,
gusts of stench, decomposing matter, whiffs of pure and fresh perfumes,
stalls selling coconuts and slices of pineapple, ragged vagrants with no job and no luck, a gang of adolescents like an escaping herd of deer,