India: Another country

Mandsaur

FT.com has posted an interesting article on the ever changing face of India. Edward Luce writes:

"India’s image has progressed a long way from the days when it served as the principal locus of western fantasies of the Orient. The west, I say, as often as not nowadays dispenses with its romantic lens altogether. By the same token, India’s self-image has also altered, from one that saw itself as beyond comparison with normal countries, to a new globalised mindset that was as predictably flag-waving but also as insecure as anywhere else."

There's also a long bit about Guragoan, Delhi's new middle class suburban metropolis and home to a new breed of yuppies, or "guppies".

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