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...however, hundreds of supermarkets are opening across the country, revolutionizing the sector with refrigerated transportation and modern management practices. The largest chain, Subhiksha, has some 760 outlets across India, while Big Apple aims to have 100 of its 7-Eleven-style convenience stores in Delhi alone by the end of this year. Reliance Retail, a division of India's biggest conglomerate and arguably the most formidable player in the retail market, plans to invest $5.5 billion to open outlets in 784 cities across the country. At the same time, foreign companies such as Tesco and Carrefour are trying to gain...
...Those in favor of the shift to larger, modern stores argue that India's market is large enough to accommodate both small and big retailers, and the benefits of outweigh the costs. "Organized retail will benefit both consumers and farmers," says Gibson Vedamani from the Retailers' Association of India, pointing out that both will gain from more efficient supply chains and the economies of scale organized retail will offer...
...spring, Livesey, whom Higonnet called “very Irish in a bizarre way, although he doesn’t live in Ireland,” will be teaching a class in modern Irish history. He expects the class to be packed, because modern Irish history is rarely offered at Harvard. The last time the class was taught was in 1998 and 1999, when Livesey was a visiting lecturer...
...also slated to teach a reading seminar on democracy and liberalism in modern France this spring...
...which is to be called “The Origins of Civil Society” and will be out next year, is a historical critique of the idea of civil society. This idea, according to Livesey, is “a set of values that anchors the domains of modern life by resolving the varied and incommensurable value orientations to one another...