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...careers on hate must, in the final analysis, be held to account," wrote the moderate Hindu newspaper. So far, however, the BJP has shown little appetite for introspection or candor on the subject of its own culpability. That's a mistake, says Mushirul Hasan, a professor of history at Delhi's Jamia Millia Islamia University. "The government should say, 'This could be the result of what happened in Gujarat.' Then people would see that they were taking a fairly decent position instead of trying to brush it under the carpet...
...often in the past, and the charges against Pakistan seemed somewhat half hearted. Even Bombay's BJP-allied Shiv Sena party, normally vociferously anti-Pakistan, held an uncharacteristically silent protest march. The change from a year ago?when India and Pakistan were on the brink of war and New Delhi seized any opportunity to point a finger directly at Islamabad?is "striking," says a Western diplomat in Delhi. "India knows that this is a local issue, but 18 months ago that wouldn't have stopped them," he says. "Now, there's a real united commitment to Vajpayee's peace process...
...Jyoti Sthankey, 21, a part-time student from western India, left a job at a state-run airline this year to become a sales clerk at Wills, a new clothing shop in central New Delhi, convinced that she had a better chance to move up in the rapidly growing chain. She's aiming to quadruple her $2,000 salary by advancing to management in two years. In June, Sthankey and her brother, who manages a Pizza Hut restaurant, moved into their first, small house, its $10,400 cost paid entirely with savings. A month before, she spent a month...
...Typical of the new trend is Samit Kapoor, 28, an assistant manager at Exl Service, a call center near New Delhi. Last year Kapoor took a mortgage to buy a two-bedroom apartment, and this year he purchased a car, a Hyundai Santro, for about $7,000. Four times a month, Kapoor visits New Delhi's top restaurants, among them Italian bistro Flavors or Indian-food specialist Bukhara, dropping as much as $40 a meal. In the process, he ran up about $4,200 in credit-card debt, spread over three cards. Since getting married six months...
...Executives and economists see little chance that the boom in spending will slow down anytime soon. The National Association of Software & Service Companies, an industry group in New Delhi, expects that 1 million people will be working in call centers and other "back office" operations in India by 2008, up from 160,000 in March. "There will be significant opportunities for people to look for higher incomes," says Hemendra Mathur, a manager at KSA Technopak. For all those millions of potential Saurabh Kedias, the news could hardly be better...