Tue, May 22, 2012

India Around the Web

 

Love, Longing and Cell Phones

Posted 1 year, 3 months ago

More people in India have access to a cell phone than do to a functioning toilet. This finding, the discovery of a United Nations study, is often quoted when describing the remarkable gains that this society has made with the help of technology. From banking to fish-selling to job hunting, the…

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Will Cameron’s new ‘special relationship’ with India replace the UK’s old one with the US?

Posted 1 year, 9 months ago

David Cameron, the British Prime Minister, is in India this week and he has brought along with him the biggest group of British Cabinet ministers (six of them in total, including the foreign secretary, William Hague, and the chancellor of the exchequer, George Osborne) and business leaders…

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Why India is Embracing Burma’s Junta

Posted 1 year, 9 months ago

The leader of Myanmar’s repressive military junta, General Than Shwe, is in India this week for his fourth state visit. I have a story in this week’s issue of Newsweek in which I explain why India, which once sheltered Burmese refugees and saw itself as a champion of democracy in South Asia, has…

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