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...India Unmasked Simon Robinson's "India Without the Slogans" painted a spot-on picture of India [June 4]. The bureaucracy, the indiscipline, the sycophancy and the religious conflicts at a drop of cow dung were all there when I studied and worked in India in the 1960s and '70s-and they persist. It may be the largest democracy, but the lack of political will and the corruption and conservatism curb the country's immense potential. I was recently in Australia, where I met an enthusiastic band of young Indians whose nationalism was intense. Yet with all their enthusiasm, you could...
...India Unmasked Simon Robinson's "India without the slogans" painted a spot-on picture of India [June 4]. The bureaucracy, the indiscipline, the sycophancy and the religious conflicts at a drop of cow dung were all there when I studied and worked in India in the 1960s and '70s - and they persist. It may be the largest democracy, but the lack of political will and the corruption and conservatism curb the country's immense potential. I was recently in Australia, where I met an enthusiastic band of young Indians whose nationalism was intense. Yet with all their enthusiasm, you could...
...This is a disgrace for the lion family! Beaten by a cow!" said another...
...Second Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in favor of broadcasters in a challenge against Federal Communications Commission sanctions for indecent and profane language. Among the penalized quotes was Richie's discussing her Simple Life experience on a live Fox awards show in 2003: "Have you ever tried to get cow s___ out of a Prada purse? It's not so f___ing simple...
...early morning light slowly illuminates the mishmash of streets around the Krishnarajendra Market in central Bangalore, pushcart vendors wade through ankle-deep mud and cow manure and past heaping piles of cabbage leaves and rotting tomatoes. Skinny porters doubled over beneath burlap sacks full of vegetables shuffle through the quagmire, trying to avoid the trucks that belch blue clouds of diesel exhaust and the sacred but occasionally cantankerous cows munching on piles of trash. Women squat behind piles of vegetables they will carry to distant neighborhoods for a tiny profit. The grocery business in India is choreographed chaos, a commercial...