The Right to Complain
/If you have a problem, but others are worse off, should you shut up?
As an avid cyclist, James Bennett had a hard time adjusting to New Delhi’s high levels of air pollution (Photo by Ankur Gupta)
“Here I was obsessing about my lungs, while this boy begs for survival on an empty stomach.”
In 2015, Australian journalist James Bennett moved to India, to take up a long-coveted role as a foreign correspondent.
James was an outdoorsy type: he liked to cycle, surf, camp, and fish. So he knew the move to India's crowded capital city was going to be hard. What he didn’t realize was how the experience would change his perspective on speaking up about your problems.
On this episode, he shares his story. It’s a story that first ran several years ago, but which feels surprisingly relevant again now.
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