Word: rural
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...hands dirty or his feet wet in his quest to discover modern Russia. One day he braved floodwaters to visit the small farming community of Bichyovka, plagued by heavy rains. An old babushka, who obviously did not know the identity of the visitor, shrilly confronted Solzhenitsyn with a timeless, rural Russian lament: "The roads are full of water. Why can't you do something about it?" Said Solzhenitsyn: "I'm not an official. I can't do anything." It was a humble admission from a literary giant, proving the biblical dictum that prophets have no honor in their own countries...
...notion sounds fanciful, especially in the West where the autonomous individual is sacred and the willed reinvention of personality is a ritual. Naipaul is himself a successful product of modernity's powers of transformation. He was born 61 years ago into a Hindu society that had been transplanted to rural Trinidad by indentured laborers from India. Molded by family custom and the tensions of his multiracial island, Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul was then reshaped by British institutions. They included a scholarship system that brought the gifted young colonial to postwar England, where he settled and began his long, penny-pinching slog...
...need to invest massive resources for poorer sections and rural areas to ensure a smooth assimilation [towards a new economy]," he said...
...Rural development and empowerment is bound towake the sleeping giant that is rural India," headded...
...stumbled into Rwanda a century ago found a country ruled by tall, willowy Tutsi cattle lords under a magical Tutsi king, while darker- skinned, stockier Hutu farmers tended the land, grew the food, kept the Tutsi clothed and fed. They lived in symbiotic harmony. "They were a reasonably contented rural society," says Basil Davidson, a leading British historian of Africa. "There was no hatred between the two groups. That came only with the colonial system...