November 2011
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It's the politics, stupid; or, is it?
From Sunil Khilnani’s “Why India is at a crossroads,” published today at the BBC website:
For India’s founders, political freedom was their great prize.
Yet decades on, what that freedom has delivered measures up poorly for many.
For India’s business elites eager to compete with China, for the middle classes fed up with corruption, for radicalisant intellectuals,...