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Except the reality hasn't. Sure, there are pockets of prosperity like Bangalore and Hyderabad, roads and airports and railway lines are under construction, foreign investment is up and Indian companies are moving out into the world. But the truth is that much of the new India is still like...
But respect? It's not that critics treat any game show as if it were The Sopranos. But even within the world of game shows, there's a caste system. At the bottom, of course, is National Bingo Night. At the top are the scholarly quiz shows, which reward what...
This bombshell occupies only five pages, but it gives Rajmohan Gandhi enough material for his book's redeeming feature-namely, the clear depiction of the tensions between Gandhi's erratic emotional compass and his unswerving moral one. For despite the occasional salacious lapses, the overarching principle that infused Gandhi's...
Cricket arrived here in the 19th century, when the Parsi community in Mumbai picked up the game from English settlers. The game soon spread around the subcontinent, crossing religious and caste boundaries as it went. India played its first international game in 1932, and it was popularized with the advent...
These matches would have been unlikely in the Iran of my parents' generation, where social classes were impermeable, people mostly married within their religious and financial caste, and hejab was an inherited, fixed custom within specific groups. Back then, the daughters of veiled women learned to veil, the daughters of...