Mumbai I’ve been coming to India regularly for over a decade now, several times per year for many years and annually more recently. There have been visible changes, tall apartment blocks growing like weeds, highways under endless construction finally completed, more people with more money more visible, but all of this in a death grip …
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Middle-Class Movement Meets Political Machines in Indian Election Run-up
Bengaluru In the one and one-half years since I last visited Bengaluru, or Bangalore as it is still known in the West, the changes were visible from the time I hit the expressway. The new airport, 40 kilometers from the city center is no longer as new, but for the first time the ride was …