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Saturday, 20 August 2011

Interesting readings

Posted on 22:29 by Unknown





The Anna Hazare silliness is depressing. Writing in the Indian
Express
, Shekhar
Gupta
has an interesting angle on why there is so much
interest in this snake oil.



India's
$2 trillion economy means we have to reform faster
by
R. Jagannathan on FirstPost.



Meera
Subramanian
has a beautiful story about how Diclofenac, fed to
cows, is killing off India's vultures. We're down from 50M vultures
to 60k. The consequences are bigger than we think.



Former
Sebi member Abraham?s claims under CVC lens
by Appu Esthose
Suresh in Mint.



China's
port in Pakistan?
, by Robert D. Kaplan, in Foreign Policy.



The
10 most corrupt Indian politicians
.








A promising
band: Menwhopause. Listen.



The
decline of Asian marriage
, in the Economist.








Vinayak
Chatterjee
on ten projects that matter in India today.



The
new draft Microfinance
Bill
. Back
story
.



Nirvikar
Singh
in the Financial Express on the CCI order about NSE.








Think
again: War
by Joshua S. Goldstein in Foreign Policy.



Hegemony
with Chinese characteristics
by Aaron L. Friedberg, in
the National
Interest
. Arab
Spring, Chinese Winter
by James Fallows, in
the Atlantic. The
South China Sea is the future of conflict
by Robert
D. Kaplan, in Foreign Policy.



href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303365804576430161732491064.html?mod=WSJ_article_MoreIn_Life%26Culture">The
problems of dogs in Iran.












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