The service invariably involves one or two young women waiting on you. They get through the services with speed and precision you can’t get elsewhere. Not for this price anyway. Besides, class differences, and the equally acute consciousness of it in Indian society, means you’re attended to like royalty. Many Indians living abroad like me indulge such luxuries when visiting India, marveling at the incomparable level of service, yet comfortably blind to the substrate upon which its differentiation persists.