India

Their credit cards are maxed out, but Ross wants money — now! Ross is actually Roshan; he's one of those young Indian graduates who spend their working days on the phone trying to get back the cash spent by Americans during the boom.

Shah Rukh Khan says his latest film focuses on "the relationship between the Western world and Islam and how that has changed over the past few years." It is about "the journey of one family and how it changes because of 9/11", the Bollywood star says.

David Headley has a Pakistani wife, who lives with their children in Chicago. He also has an American girlfriend in New York. And he's an Islamic fundamentalist suspected of involvement in last November's attacks on Mumbai that left 170 people dead.

To some, India is an emerging superpower with a growing middle class — but it's also a poor, rural state with huge problems. These worlds are in much closer proximity to each other than in other countries, says Birgit Roberts; her photos capture the paradoxes.