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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Dream
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- Nov 07, 2020
One advantage of not being in power is that we can dream of reshaping the world exactly as we please.
- Climate
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- Nov 07, 2020
The investment climate in Gujarat under Modi has been very supportive of business interests; but it was the same under the Congress governments that came before him.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
Gujarat is a pro-business state, where civil society organisations are comfortable with working to make sure that business does not suffer. Large parts of the rest of India, for better or worse, are very different.
- Institutions
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- Nov 07, 2020
The BJP must nurture the institutions that put credible checks and balances in place.
- Decisiveness
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- Nov 07, 2020
I will confess that in general decisiveness worries me; it is often an excuse for being impatient with the details or insufficiently sensitive to other people's concerns.
- Poor
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- Nov 07, 2020
The poverty line in the U.S., for example, has nothing to do with the poverty line in India. It is a relative poverty line. It is reset from time to time but it is related to U.S. median income, so if I set that to be the absolute poverty line everyone in India would essentially be poor.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
We might think we are very different from Pakistan but we are not; we are the same people, with the same capacity for warmth and passion and intolerance and violence.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
The problem of getting from home to the metro, BRT or bus stop makes many people take their cars to work. Why not start a fleet of electric buses that just circle through neighbourhoods connecting them to the various public transport hubs?
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
My guess is that while the elites would like cleaner air, they are not willing to give up the convenience of being able to use their cars at will to get it, perhaps because they believe (I suspect incorrectly) that they can protect themselves from the consequences of vehicular pollution by investing in air-conditioners and air purifiers.
- Compromised
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every nation necessarily inhabits a morally compromised space. All too often our ideals seem to be held to ransom by what we believe, rightly or wrongly, to be objective reality.
- Civil Society
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- Nov 07, 2020
This is why universities, and civil society more generally, are so important for a democracy like ours, founded on a genuine idealism that we have a hard time holding on to. They provide a space to question whatever we are doing in the name of things we say we believe in or might believe in.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
Students often say things that they will one day change their minds about, but also things that change our minds when we think about them.
- Democracy
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- Nov 07, 2020
If democracy as we know it has to survive the elites have to regain their credibility. And they have to start by admitting that their economic model is broken.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
Anyone who has a child knows the importance of not over-playing your hand. He was up all night playing some game on his smartphone and you feel like saying that if it happens again the phone is gone. Forever. Till he is old enough to buy his own. Till then he can have your old Nokia.
- Leader
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- Nov 07, 2020
If democracy is to be an articulation of mutual respect, a leader in a democracy leads by showing respect to all.
- Depression
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- Nov 07, 2020