Indian Optimism

Data shows that Indians are among the most optimistic people in the world; Europeans are much less so. But when you look at people on the streets, you feel this undercurrent of desperation, hopelessness, boredom. So many people on the streets have these low-paying and largely boring jobs, like sitting in or outside a hot guard booth all day on the outside of a 3-family home, reading the newspaper and chatting with other guards, coping with the heat.