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Tuesday, July 19, 2011

Ramachandra Guha: India is too corrupt to become a superpower

Ramachandra Guha: India is too corrupt to become a superpower
 
The sociologist Ashis Nandy once noted that “in India the choice could never be between chaos and stability, but between manageable and unmanageable chaos”. He wrote this in the 1980s, a decade marked by ethnic strife, caste violence, and bloody religious riots. But it applies even more so to the India of today, and is being made worse by the steady deterioration and corruption of India’s ruling political elite.
http://link.ft.com/r/NA70KK/L997UP/40OA1R/XTPENU/EXWJXB/ZH/h?a1=2011&a2=7&a3=19
 

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