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Manu Joseph: How India’s labour has made London a kinder city

Manu Joseph: How India’s labour has made London a kinder city

Manu Joseph: How India’s labour has made London a kinder city


Indians have also transformed the public character of London in an odd way. Now the support staff speaks English. Twenty years ago, you could not be assured of getting by in Central London using English if you needed assistance, say, in the tube stations. Physically, London is too beautiful, too clean, too orderly, and its government too humane, to be an Indian city. But inside many buildings it feels like India.