The Sorcer’s Enchantment

June 29, 2003 on 11:59 pm | In Newspapers, Times of India | No Comments

When our tax refunds arrived in May, within six months of filing our return, we thought we were dreaming. Since it normally took years, something must be afoot we thought, and decided to pay North Block a visit. There we were astonished to learn that computers had already completed 95 per cent of this year’s returns. Continue reading…

Why India Matters

June 15, 2003 on 12:00 am | In Newspapers, Times of India | No Comments

On a recent lecture tour of America I found that Indians are regarded with new seriousness. Whether in a Bay Area restaurant or a Wall Street office or a Chicago hospital we are now perceived differently. Indian professionals abroad have succeeded in making India relevant: something our leadership of the non-aligned movement could never achieve. Continue reading…

A Sense of Possibilities

June 1, 2003 on 12:01 am | In Newspapers, Times of India | No Comments

I made a new friend last week. Shashi Kumar is twenty-nine and comes from a tiny village in Bihar, where his grandfather used to be a low caste sharecropper in good times and a day labourer in hard ones. They were so poor that on some nights he didn’t get to eat. But his father somehow escaped this bondage and got a job in a transport company in Darbhanga. Continue reading…

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