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...stores arm of Reliance Retail, to shut their shops and lay off staff. "We want the government to stop large corporations from entering the retail segment until it puts in place a national policy that is agreeable to all the stakeholders including small traders, shopkeepers, wholesalers and vendors," says Dharmendra Kumar of India FDI Watch, a coalition of labor unions and trade associations that has been at the forefront of the recent agitation. "Retail is the second-largest employer in the country; the livelihoods of 40 million people are likely to be affected if big players are allowed...
...Back in Nanuku, Dharmendra Prasad's three-year-old son is sick. Prasad can't tell if the skinny toddler's illness came from the faecal scum in the open drain next to the family's tin shanty, or from the clouds of mosquitoes swarming among the surrounding mangroves. He just hopes it doesn't worsen because he hasn't enough money to feed his family, let alone pay doctors' bills. For the past three weeks, the father of three has failed to obtain his regular $2 an hour construction work; a messenger has just dropped by to tell...
...Kapoor's Awaara, she was required to age 24 years in the role of a loving wife who is unjustly accused of infidelity. After that, she played mum to the top male stars of Bombay's Golden Age: Dilip Kumar in Ganga Jumna, Dev Anand in Guide, Dharmendra in Aap Ki Parchhaiyan. Women on pedestals are expected to behave like statuary: the heavenward glance, the beseeching gesture, a grandeur silent and stoic. Not Chitnis. Hers was a robust femininity; it humanized the saints she played. She retired in the '80s and moved to the U.S.?alas, without the happy ending...
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