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Curious Bends – India’s business-friendly budget, vanishing women farmers, a water-supply scare and more
1. For its ignorance of human capital, the 2015 Budget was a step back into the Third World “Oddly, the recent Budget of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) junks these insights and goes back to the days of Jawaharlal Nehru, … Continue reading
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Caste, healthcare and statistics
In late November 2014, the esteemed British medical journal The Lancet published an editorial calling for the end of casteism in India to mitigate the deteriorating health of the millions of rural poor, if nothing else. The central argument was that caste was hampering … Continue reading
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