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[from amaah] Skin-whitening adverts ignite race row in India

The whitening market in India is worth millions of pounds, with men as well as women routinely buying bleaching lotions in an effort to "improve" their complexion... standards of beauty

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[from amaah] In Mumbai, a Restaurant Row With Drive-Through Charity

They are not soup kitchens, for denizens of this city have little time to serve other people food. In a city that never stops selling stocks and shooting movies, they prefer drive-by benevolence.

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[from amaah] In India, Will Corruption Slow Growth or Will Growth Slow Corruption?

The good news in India, compared to China, may be that at least the most egregious forms of corruption are exposed by social activists or the media. One big difference is in the legal system. In India, a firm can sue the government and win, which may not

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[from amaah] India at 60: special report

A crucial struggle is taking place over which direction this economically resurgent nation should be taking. the powerful and aspirational segment of the population India poised to make the transformation from an impoverished, backward country into a supe

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[from amaah] Poverty masks huge enterprise in Asia's biggest slum

slums are dynamic places, it pays to look beneath the surface... people should be reading Texaco by Chamoiseau to get a sense of the complexity of these places rather than be surprised. What, they think that things never change?

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