For 27 years, I lived between New York City and a farmstead in a village called Hebron, nestled between the Adirondack mountains of New York and the picturesque Green Mountains of Vermont. The 70 acres of luxuriant green living and an organic lifestyle never made me feel as comfortable and safe as the city. These chickens defied all previously understood norms about chicken husbandry and lived happily despite their differences in sizes and forms. Living in this rural outpost just a few hours north of New York City, I saw great disparity in the wealthiest and most powerful nation of the world. My father, visiting us from India, would say that we lived in the fourth world in Hebron.

Source: Indian Express December 27, 2020 00:45 UTC