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Scanning the front pages of the Telegraph and rival newspapers he sells from his central London shop, Pankaj Mehta highlights another reason the expenses scandal hit Labour hardest. Reports of Conservative grandees submitting bills for the upkeep of mansions have reinforced the party's unfortunate image of entitlement and wealth, but the vision of Labour MPs subsidizing their lifestyles is more damaging still. New Labour defined itself as a party that encouraged wealth creation, that in the words of Peter Mandelson, Business Secretary and Brown's de facto deputy, was "intensely relaxed about people getting filthy rich." But it still...
...India's wealthy and middle classes, those who have so far been insulated from the worst of the violence that has pockmarked so much of India over the past 20 years. "We, meaning the middle classes, live in this little bubble that we've created around us," says Pankaj Mishra, the author of several books about contemporary India. "But the problems around us will explode and continue to explode." How the country and its leaders respond to that call will determine whether Mumbai's tragedy turns into a national...
...having to give Catalog Choice your customer numbers from umpteen mailing labels sounds a little too labor-intensive, you can pay GreenDimes.com to do the grunt work for you. CEO Pankaj Shah justifies GreenDimes' $20 annual fee by pledging to reduce your junk mail 90% within 90 days--by pulling your name off a broad range of lists--and to follow up monthly to make sure you stay off those lists. In terms of eliminating paper waste, this service beats Catalog Choice in that it's more comprehensive--and quicker--in its clutter-clearing...
...With them, the story of Buddhism in India comes back to its beginnings. In his book An End to Suffering: The Buddha in the World, author Pankaj Mishra describes the troubled times in which the Buddha appeared. Dissatisfied with lives regimented around work, he writes, people gathered to listen to a new breed of freethinking philosopher, "India's first cosmopolitan thinkers." Those disaffected seekers came together in groves and parks built near the cities of the sixth-century B.C. Gangetic Plain. But any 21st century Delhi-ite would surely recognize the tensions driving their search for spiritual clarity...
...unfair slur on an Indian player." In India, protestors burned the umpires and the Australian captain Ricky Ponting in effigy and newspapers called for the team to come home early, describing the Australians as shameful and cheats. "It's not cricket, it's India versus a conspiracy," says Pankaj Kehra, 39, a manager at an import company in Delhi. "There's no need to play under these conditions of harassment...