India, Feb. 7 -- Did you visit a country as a tourist long ago and ticked it off your bucket list? Visit it again, because now it will be a different country. Not because it has changed or developed, but your new income strata will unlock a different experience at the same destination. It suddenly becomes a different city.

I visited Europe in my 20s, due to a concept invented by package-tour companies called the honeymoon - an extension of the usual punching-above-your weight Olympics called the wedding festivities, where people take high-interest personal loans to feed their relatives three varieties of pasta at a Noida banquet hall. Evidently, I couldn't really afford the Euro trip, but I went with the same irrationality with which we ...