Eye on India
- Wednesday, August 23 2006 @ 07:37 AM CST
- Contributed by: filbert
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I like India. I don't know exactly why, as I've never been there (something I hope to rectify in the next 12-18 months). So my blog-ears prick up when there's an article on India (or, as happened yesterday, I discovered that Foreign Affairs magazine has India as its feature/focus this month).
Here's a snippet from a TCS Daily article by Amit Varma:
Here's a snippet from a TCS Daily article by Amit Varma:
Freedom doesn't come easy. "We need another [Mahatma] Gandhi to yet again transform the mental landscape of India," the popular Indian blogger Gaurav Sabnis once wrote, a thought echoed by another respected political commentator, Nitin Pai, in a post titled, "Waiting for the free-market Mahatma." In the blogosphere more than in the mainstream media, a new generation of Indians is discussing the meaning of freedom. A hundred years ago, as Pai wrote, "the idea of political freedom in India was the matter of debate in the parlours of the educated elite." That idea spread, however, and proved irresistible. So will this one.