Not ‘what’, but ‘how’

January 28, 2007 on 3:53 pm | In Newspapers, Times of India | No Comments

I was driving down from Jaipur to Ajmer. But I could have been anywhere. The six lane highway was a smooth beauty and the pot-holed India of the PWD was a hazy memory.   Then the wondrous colours of Rajasthan appeared and for an instant I thought I had entered a certain paradise, which seemed to unite modernity with tradition, world-class infrastructure with the ineffable loveliness of old India. Continue reading…

If good men do nothing

January 14, 2007 on 3:56 pm | In Newspapers, Times of India | No Comments

Considering that the year gone by was one of our best, it is dismaying that Indians continue to be so down on politics. 2006 was the fourth successive year of unprecedented prosperity. India emerged on the global stage, and its arrival was hailed in part by the Indo-U.S. treaty, which finally de-hyphenated it from Pakistan. Justice caught up with three murderers of high status who had subverted it with rishwat and sifarish.   Many states began to implement the Right to Information Act. And the new SEZ policy raised hopes of a true industrial revolution. Continue reading…

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