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...given time there are only 500 or so white mares stabled in and around Delhi, rental prices can rise tenfold or even more during the wedding season, which runs from October to February. "Normally, hiring a mare for a day should cost 500 rupees ($12)," says Ashok Ahuja of Sohan Lal and Sons, a firm specializing in accoutrements for wedding processions, "But during the wedding season, it costs 5,100 rupees ($130)." A carriage, accompanied by a live band, lighting and decorations can cost up to 100,000 rupees ($2,500), he says, which doesn't seem to deter families...
...fashioned views aren't likely to reverse the new trend, however. Just ask 20-year-olds Nisha Ahuja and Lakshya Singh, Delhi students who have been dating for the past nine months. "India is a democratic country. I have a right to say to her that I love her and she should have a right to tell me that she loves me. Why should anyone tell us we can't?" asks Singh over coffee in a central cafe where the two often meet. "People have become more independent," says Ahuja. "They want to be able to decide things for themselves...
...modern and traditional as effortlessly as they handle their mobile phones. That, in fact, is the way they met: via a cell phone dating service. She liked his "attitude, his way of responding which was very decent." He liked that Ahuja "didn't want to talk nonsense." They hope one day to get their two families together so they can arrange a hybrid of a love marriage and an arranged one by getting the mutual consent of both sets of parents. "Youngsters just want to show their feelings," says Singh. "And if people don't like that then that...
...relatively small software upgrades that boost the speed of 3G networks at far less cost than building a new WiMax network. But some operators acknowledge that these enhancements will probably not be powerful enough to compete with mobile WiMax, and few seem to have a strategy beyond that. Sanjiv Ahuja, chief executive of Orange, the France Telecom?owned mobile carrier, says only that Orange "will be making decisions over a period of time over what technologies will complement" conventional cellular. Vodafone, meanwhile, announced last month that it was dismantling its New Business and Innovation unit, which it had formed just...
...MASUMA AHUJA AND MATTHEW WILLMOTT