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AHMEDABAD, India – In early September, the Indian Supreme Court is expected to rule on a gas-agreement dispute brought forth by India??s third richest industrialist, Anil Ambani—against India??s richest, Ambani’s own brother, Mukesh. The two businessmen now independently run what was once India??s largest industrial conglomerate, Reliance Industries, divided between the quarreling heirs after the death of the family and company patriarch, Dhirubhai Ambani. In a country ostensibly rooted in deep extended-family relations, the partitioning of Reliance and the Ambani family?...
...breakdown is rooted in themes of family disputes that are as timeless as “The Mahabharata.” Quarrelling families are not a modern phenomenon in India, but the recent move away from the joint-family arrangement is arguably facilitated by more modern trends—India??s continuing growth and a booming real estate market. These factors are nonetheless coupled with desires for separation that have long existed in many joint families...
...challenge of constructing an effective agreement. While she emphasized the importance of protecting the environment, India flatly stated its opposition to accepting any form of binding emissions cuts. As a developing nation that has played a very small part in producing the climate mess that the world now faces, India??s lack of enthusiasm is understandable. This does not mean, however, that an agreement is out of the question. A treaty that includes clean energy technology transfers and investment from wealthy countries in return for mandatory environmental targets in the developing world would benefit wealthy and developing economies...
...Indian counterpart on the basis of test scores or work ethic, political, economic, and, most importantly, pedagogical asymmetry almost guarantees that the latter will end up working for the former. This sad fact of globalization, perhaps rooted in the investment each country has made for its future, shortchanges India??s students today, and therefore fails to effectively inspire this nation’s youth into becoming its leaders of tomorrow...
...Whether Indians truly want the infusion of Western ideas is still unclear. Do they genuinely like The Hangover, or does its association with Western culture simply contribute to India??s own credibility as “modern”? In countries like India, citizens deserve to make their own decisions about pop cultural preferences and tastes. Portraying Western culture as inherently superior—and the only legitimate form of modern culture—infringes upon that right...