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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...
...convince ordinary Vietnamese that their system is actually becoming more open and democratic. Hanoi may soon announce the results of its May 20 National Assembly elections, touted as a democratic exercise because the government actively encouraged pre-screened "self-nominated" candidates to run. In February, Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung held an unprecedented online chat with ordinary citizens, in which he frankly answered questions on the economy and press censorship. Meanwhile, state media have published lengthy articles criticizing multi-party "Western-style" democracy as messy and debilitating, while trumpeting the "Vietnamese style" of one-party rule as a guarantor...
...stone wall. It's also where he saw a painting in the lines of a plow on the land, a sculpture in a haystack, and where he realized that the idyllic landscape of rural England is one fashioned by sweat and privilege and kept green by death and dung. So, even if over the last 25 years Goldsworthy, now 50, has traveled far from home (and his fame has spread even further), there is no more fitting home than the Yorkshire Sculpture Park for the biggest-ever exhibition of his work, old and new, which runs until...
...another is clad in crackled local clay. In a third hangs an exquisite 12-m-wide filigree curtain made of 10,000 horse-chestnut stalks pinned together with thorns. High on a hill overlooking the park, all but a snaking ribbon of picture window has been covered in cow dung. "It works like the landscape itself," Goldsworthy says. "From a distance you think that's beautiful. Get up close and you think, Hmm." www.ysp.co.uk