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...There was a time not too long ago when the wait for telephone service in some areas of Delhi territory was 15 years. Today it's different: I haven't heard any reports of cell-phone-signal dropout in the area Robinson mentioned. Yes, India has problems, but it has come a long way in the past few decades. And far from being a burden, democracy is our biggest insurance against momentum being gained in the wrong direction. Sunil Bajpai, NEW DELHI...
...fact that India's remote and hilly northeastern terrain has passable roads, suvs, cell-phone service and hotels speaks of momentum and progress. India offers abundant opportunities to get rich quick. Indeed, the countless foreign businessmen and women who come to India are worried more about cell connectivity in Delhi than malnourished children in Noida. I am a regular visitor to China and a keen follower of Chinese progress. One must realize that that country opened up its economy much earlier than India did. And China still has many more slogans than India has! Dukkipati Nageswara Rao, HYDERABAD, INDIA...
...fixture of the majestically violent landscape that has drawn tourists to this arid northwestern state of India for decades. But there is a difference, at least in this remote Shekhawati region of Rajasthan where Mandawa sits, a scorching five-and-half-hour drive through the desert from New Delhi. But rather than reminisce about the martial adventures of his forefathers, Kesri Singh is preoccupied these days with his former subjects, the "Marwari" merchants who were once moneylenders and traders in the dusty camel-filled town that sprawls around the ramparts of his castle. "We gave them military protection," he says...
...women chose jauhar, or self-immolation in a fiery pit, over captivity. Such tales have cloaked Chittorgarh in an aura that it retains to this day. My guide waxes romantic over the spot where the beautiful Queen Padmini committed herself to the flames to escape the Sultan of Delhi's clutches in 1303. "She is still beloved by the people," he declares. "She is Rajasthan...
When change does come, sales of imported whiskies are sure to boom. In the lobby of the five-star Grand Hotel in New Delhi on a recent Sunday night, businessmen J.P. Goenka and N.R. Pillai enjoy 12-year-old Glenfiddich at $8.50 a shot. "Those who can afford it drink it. But for most people, it's still too expensive," says Pillai. "It's a sort of a status symbol," says Goenka, each finger encased in a nuggety ring. "India has a massive middle class ready for this sort of thing, but it's still perhaps just a bit beyond...