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5 Mar 1990 3 minute read

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new internationalist issue 205 - March 1990 India India presents a bazaar of images. In my home town of Indore, ... draped with the bodies of the sleeping poor at night. India's contradictions are well-known. For a country which ...

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5 Sep 1990 4 minute read

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5 Feb 1990 9 minute read

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Inside A Little Tiger

... he, nor his company, fits the Western stereotype of India. A few years ago, Muthu Krishnan was attending a trade ... Sports Club. He's been heavily involved in setting up India's first motor-racing track at Sriperumudur, 40 ... sophisticated products that he advocates spreading through India like the precepts of Sri Ramanuja. He talks casually ...

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5 Sep 1990 6 minute read

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Perishtroika, Mon Amour

... of their missiles. But how does the East-West thaw look in India where the prospect of war looms larger daily? Kishu ... in 1989 (ranging from Lebanon to Sikh terrorism in India and Tamil guerillas in Sri Lanka). almost all were ... this better than the current state of affairs between India and Pakistan. The two prickly neighbours have fought ...

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5 Apr 1990 5 minute read

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Cry Foul, Cry Freedom

... fighting global warming. Cry foul, cry freedom China and India are refusing to abide by international agreements to ... it is asked to share the costs. Countries like China and India continue to resist global protocols, like the Montreal ... Third World pay for damages caused primarily by the North. India and China account for only two per cent of total CFC ...

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5 Nov 1990 7 minute read

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... need and the donor gets the jobs to provide it. Whether India - traditionally the biggest recipient of British aid - ... the largest projects, the Rihand power station in eastern India. The supply of electricity is fundamental to economic ... A total of 2,600 British companies have profited. India's own highly capable power industry is suffering from ...

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5 May 1990 10 minute read

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The Writing On The Dam

... resistance to dam projects on the Narmada River in western India (see box). An almost revolutionary public awakening has ... water diversions are blocked on the Brahmaputra (in India and Bangladesh) because proposed canal alignments are ... environment. 'No dam shall be built!' The damming of India's Narmada River is one of the World Bank's pet ...

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5 May 1990 3 minute read

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... you get people to care about disability in a country like India - where so many of the able-bodied are empty-bellied? ... of people with permanent handicapping conditions in India. Deprived of any social - and often economic - status, ... in the financial arena. The prevalent attitude in India is that disability is a non-issue as long as large ...

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5 Dec 1990 10 minute read

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... have deteriorated further. At Kedung Ombo in Java and in India's Narmada Valley there have been violent confrontations ... dams. When a second hearing on resettlement at India's Sardar Sarovar dam was held in Washington in October ... groups in the US as well as in countries like Brazil and India have called repeatedly for the Bank to fund more ...

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5 May 1990 3 minute read

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Trinidad And Tobago

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5 May 1990 7 minute read

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The Decade Flows On

... of the same would hardly have been a great leap forward. India provides a classic illustration. In the mid-1970s, ... in the countryside the distinctive shape of the 'India Mark Two' now rears its pumphead. In 1980, just under a ... water supply. By the end of 1990, one and a half million India Mark Two pumps will have been installed, serving ...

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5 Sep 1990 8 minute read

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... Railways Minister and former President of the All-India Railwaymen's Federation, the biggest trade union in the ...

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