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Back to Licence-Raj?

Posted in India Minds!, tagged on April 4, 2008 | No Comments »

Two articles in today’s ET woke me up from my mini writing-slumber.
One: Worried by rising inflation, the government is contemplating invoking the long defunct section 18G of the Industrial Development & Regulation Act, 1951, which would allow price ceilings to be imposed on ‘essential’ commodities. Now, one doesn’t need to be an economics or public [...]

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What’s in a name, again?

Posted in India Minds!, tagged , on March 13, 2008 | No Comments »

TDP has announced it’s plans to protest and even clash with the police during Sonia Gandhi’s visit to the new airport at Shamshabad today. Reason: They want the airport to be named after ‘N.T. Rama Rao’ instead of ‘Rajiv Gandhi’ as a mark of Telugu pride!
Some time back, a completed stretch of the Delhi-Gurgaon expressway [...]

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cos·mo·pol·i·tan [koz-muh-pol-i-tn]

Posted in India Minds!, tagged , on February 5, 2008 | 2 Comments »

cos·mo·pol·i·tan  [koz-muh-pol-i-tn]
–adjective

1.
Free from local, provincial, or national ideas, prejudices, or attachments; At home all over the world.
e.g. Mumbai is the most cosmopolitan city in India. 

2.
Of or characteristic of a cosmopolite.

3.
Belonging to all the world; Not limited to just one part of the world. 

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cos·mo·pol·i·tan  [koz-muh-pol-i-tn]
–adjective (slang, derogatory to natives when used in context of a place)

1.
Parasitic - having [...]

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