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...malls within a few years. More Indians are starting to buy at malls, he notes, as retailers get better at pitching goods. "We're learning the science of retailing," he says. Yet even he concedes that "the larger malls will be the only ones that survive." KSA Technopak's Singhal is also bullish about the future of malls but adds, "It's very likely that quite a few of the new malls will see occupancy rates of only 50%." Far from being tangible evidence of India's new economic vigor, the numerous half-empty malls that look...
...unexpected quarter: state and federal police wielding wooden lathes and batons and firing rubber bullets and tear gas. By day's end more than 1,000 Hindu activists were in custody and another 15,000 had been loaded on to buses and trains and sent away. An outraged Ashok Singhal, leader of the rally's organizer, the militant Hindu group Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP), was moved to declare: "They treat Hindus like animals in this country...
...Meanwhile, Vajpayee's colleagues carp that he's still not being hawkish enough. "Any Prime Minister that takes action against Pakistan will sweep the elections, but Vajpayee is reluctant and that will definitely damage the BJP," complains BJP hard-liner B.P. Singhal. "As the Prime Minister, for him, national interest is above party interest...