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The Last Luxury: When kindness feels like a radical act

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India has its own values rooted in warmth and consideration. Yet somewhere between survival and success, we’ve stopped letting those instincts guide how we treat one another

On a family vacation in Thailand recently, while helping myself to the breakfast spread, I struck up a conversation with the hotel’s chef-at-large—a sociable Mexican gentleman with stories from half the world. I told him about my first trip to Mexico last year, and how endlessly fascinating I’d found his country.

He, in turn, spoke of a life spent on the move—working with top hotel chains in Mexico, North America, Puerto Rico, Jordan, the Maldives, Qatar, Bali, Jakarta—and for the past few years, in Bangkok. Curious, I asked him which country he’d liked living in the most.

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