Politics
Indians' worst fear: the honest politician - For Indian voters, news of a corruption scandal is a sign of a political system in ruddy good health. It's honesty we distrust - Guardian
A Daughter of India’s Underclass Rises on Votes That Cross Caste Lines - Kumari Mayawati, a daughter of so-called untouchables and India’s most maverick politician, stunned the nation last year when she won majority control of India’s largest state with an inventive political coalition that fused votes from up and down the ancient Hindu caste pyramid. - NYT
Violence runs through this 'stable' India, built on poverty and injustice - The country the west loves to call a peaceful, capitalist success has a terrorism death toll second only to Iraq.
- by Pankaj Mishra, Guardian
In India, idealism falters in the face of power -
The United States has always loomed large in the Indian imagination. - IHT
Economics
India: What Economic Reform? - As Indian inflation rises, Prime Minister Singh has little time left to push privatizing state companies and other financial reforms - Businessweek
Cost-Cutting in New York, but a Boom in India - Gurgaon. On the top floor of a seven-story building in this dusty aspiring metropolis, Copal Partners churns out equity, fixed income and trading research for big name analysts and banks. - NYT
In Fertile India, Growth Outstrips Agriculture - With the right technology and policies, India could help feed the world. Instead, it can barely feed itself. - NYT
Indian weavers sidelined by market forces - As traditional handmade saris go out of fashion, their makers resort to unskilled labor to make ends meet. - CSM
Miscellaneous
Gathering storm in the tea gardens of Darjeeling - As a Gurkha separatist campaign is relaunched, the region’s most famous export is hit by a strike and the eviction of tourists - Times
Decades Later, Toxic Sludge Torments Bhopal - Hundreds of tons of waste still languish inside a tin-roofed warehouse in a corner of the old grounds of the Union Carbide pesticide factory here, nearly a quarter-century after a poison gas leak killed thousands and turned this ancient city into a notorious symbol of industrial disaster. - NYT
The cult of the dabbawala - Business-school gurus take lessons from an unexpected source - Economist
Indians' worst fear: the honest politician - For Indian voters, news of a corruption scandal is a sign of a political system in ruddy good health. It's honesty we distrust - Guardian
A Daughter of India’s Underclass Rises on Votes That Cross Caste Lines - Kumari Mayawati, a daughter of so-called untouchables and India’s most maverick politician, stunned the nation last year when she won majority control of India’s largest state with an inventive political coalition that fused votes from up and down the ancient Hindu caste pyramid. - NYT
Violence runs through this 'stable' India, built on poverty and injustice - The country the west loves to call a peaceful, capitalist success has a terrorism death toll second only to Iraq.
- by Pankaj Mishra, Guardian
In India, idealism falters in the face of power -
The United States has always loomed large in the Indian imagination. - IHT
Economics
India: What Economic Reform? - As Indian inflation rises, Prime Minister Singh has little time left to push privatizing state companies and other financial reforms - Businessweek
Cost-Cutting in New York, but a Boom in India - Gurgaon. On the top floor of a seven-story building in this dusty aspiring metropolis, Copal Partners churns out equity, fixed income and trading research for big name analysts and banks. - NYT
In Fertile India, Growth Outstrips Agriculture - With the right technology and policies, India could help feed the world. Instead, it can barely feed itself. - NYT
Indian weavers sidelined by market forces - As traditional handmade saris go out of fashion, their makers resort to unskilled labor to make ends meet. - CSM
Miscellaneous
Gathering storm in the tea gardens of Darjeeling - As a Gurkha separatist campaign is relaunched, the region’s most famous export is hit by a strike and the eviction of tourists - Times
Decades Later, Toxic Sludge Torments Bhopal - Hundreds of tons of waste still languish inside a tin-roofed warehouse in a corner of the old grounds of the Union Carbide pesticide factory here, nearly a quarter-century after a poison gas leak killed thousands and turned this ancient city into a notorious symbol of industrial disaster. - NYT
The cult of the dabbawala - Business-school gurus take lessons from an unexpected source - Economist
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