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	<title>Plato's Beard &#187; India</title>
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	<description>whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must make random noises</description>
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		<title>Pankaj Mishra on the Zakaria/Friedman vision of India</title>
		<link>http://platosbeard.org/archives/390</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Nov 2008 22:33:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ravi</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Pankaj Mishra writes in The Guardian, about Fareed Zakaria, the latest intellectual empty suit of the talking heads circuit, his latest book, and the vision of India as a neo-liberal capitalist success:
In the past five years bomb attacks claimed by Islamist groups have killed hundreds across the Indian cities of Mumbai, Delhi, Jaipur, Varanasi, Bangalore, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UN due influence</title>
		<link>http://platosbeard.org/archives/360</link>
		<comments>http://platosbeard.org/archives/360#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Sep 2008 23:53:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ravi</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Arrogance]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Without any hint of irony or humour, The Guardian worries that Western influence within the United Nations is waning &#8212; worrisome because it wrecks &#8220;efforts to entrench human rights, liberties and multilateralism&#8221;.
Drop in influence at UN wrecks western attempts to push human rights agenda
The west&#8217;s efforts to use the United Nations to promote its values [...]]]></description>
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		<title>India doesn&#8217;t ♥ Obama</title>
		<link>http://platosbeard.org/archives/358</link>
		<comments>http://platosbeard.org/archives/358#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Sep 2008 03:53:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ravi</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Hmm! I wonder why&#8230;
BBC NEWS &#124; Obama win preferred in world poll
The margin of those in favour of Mr Obama winning November&#8217;s US election ranged from 9% in India to 82% in Kenya, which is the birthplace of the Illinois senator&#8217;s father.
[ Link ]
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		<title>More India Shining</title>
		<link>http://platosbeard.org/archives/321</link>
		<comments>http://platosbeard.org/archives/321#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jun 2008 20:18:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ravi</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[BBC NEWS &#124; Malnutrition getting worse in India
Every lunchtime the children of Chitori Khurda gather at the Anganwadi centre in the village. It is where nutrition and health services are provided at village level.
On the day we visited, each child was given two puris (small bread puffs fried in oil) along with some sweet porridge. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>India shining</title>
		<link>http://platosbeard.org/archives/313</link>
		<comments>http://platosbeard.org/archives/313#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 May 2008 17:48:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ravi</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Human Rights]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[India]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[ In &#8220;Propaganda and the Public Mind&#8221; (David Barsamian, Noam Chomsky), Noam Chomsky is asked &#8220;Can you think of any positive examples of humanitarian intervention?&#8221; and offers this answer:
When you look at the historical record honestly, it&#8217;s extremely hard to find any examples of use of military force undertaken for genuine humanitarian aims. [...]
In the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Outsourced</title>
		<link>http://platosbeard.org/archives/308</link>
		<comments>http://platosbeard.org/archives/308#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2008 21:17:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ravi</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[India]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Before India, there was Ireland. But as VH-1 might ask, where are they now?
Economic Slump in the Emerald Isle: Ireland&#8217;s Luck is Running Out &#8212; Spiegel
[...]
At the same time, the cost of living and doing business is soaring. The headline inflation rate is hovering near 5 percent, vs. 3.3 percent for the euro zone as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>High flying without a parachute</title>
		<link>http://platosbeard.org/archives/273</link>
		<comments>http://platosbeard.org/archives/273#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Sep 2007 03:10:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ravi</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[India]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The April 2007 issue of Business Week laments about the cautious Chinese consumer: In China private consumption is less than 40% of the GDP which BW compares to India at about 60% of the GDP. Leaving the worrying about China to BW, I wish to wonder instead what this says about Indian personal spending trends. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Globalisation and specialisation</title>
		<link>http://platosbeard.org/archives/271</link>
		<comments>http://platosbeard.org/archives/271#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Aug 2007 02:15:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ravi</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Arrogance]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[PBS&#8217;s [wide angle] covered the Indian farmer suicide issue in their episode today. The good news is that all that sad news and sorrow is alleviated towards the end by the wisdom of Jagdish Bhagwati, globalisation&#8217;s brown knight, who offered such gems as:
India specialises in poverty
The link to the interview transcript (PDF) is currently broken, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reflections on India Shining</title>
		<link>http://platosbeard.org/archives/240</link>
		<comments>http://platosbeard.org/archives/240#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Nov 2006 18:16:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ravi</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I have whined elsewhere extensively about the whole India Shining thing, primarily motivated by my own personal education, through my father, of the Indian freedom struggle and the values it drew on and hoped to build the new nation upon. The New York Times today has an excellent op-ed piece by Pankaj Mishra which voices [...]]]></description>
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		<title>From Gandhi to Geisha</title>
		<link>http://platosbeard.org/archives/208</link>
		<comments>http://platosbeard.org/archives/208#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Oct 2006 03:22:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ravi</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Forget non-alignment and socialism! It&#8217;s East India Co Shining baby!
Guardian &#124; America&#8217;s dirty secret: India becomes the gasoline gusher
Sitting on the edge of the water in the Gulf of Kutch on India&#8217;s western shore is one of America&#8217;s dirty secrets. A mass of steel pipes and concrete boxes stretches across 13 square miles (33sq km) [...]]]></description>
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