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Minhaz Merchant is the biographer of Rajiv Gandhi and Aditya Birla and author of The New Clash of Civilizations (Rupa, 2014). He is founder of Sterling Newspapers Pvt. Ltd. which was acquired by the Indian Express group
Trump and Clinton are the two most disliked presidential candidates in US history. Each has an unfavourability rating of around 60 per cent. Trump though is disliked slightly more than Hillary. That could decide the presidency
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Indian literacy remains abysmal — technically just over 75 per cent but in effect considerably lower. It is the single biggest impediment to social and economic progress
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India’s Silicon Valley, Bengaluru, has been hit by Cauvery-linked violence that has disrupted many start-ups. Big Basket reportedly lost several crores and has a huge delivery backlog. Clearly, the start-up ecosystem needs law and order to achieve peak efficiency
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A Trump presidency would actually be good for India-US trade which is currently under $70 billion – lower even than India’s trade with China
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The West has polluted the world since the industrial revolution in the 18th century and can afford tough green standards. India needs a more holistic balance between industry and the environment. That is the challenge the Modi government must take head-on
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India is poised on the cusp of rapid economic growth. Core sector output is sharply up. Green shoots are visible as the year’s excellent monsoon spreads cheer to drought-hit regions across the country
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For India, achieving a fine balance between industrial development and clean energy can help it meet the carbon emission targets formulated at last year's Paris conference on climate change
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Foreign investors aren’t flocking to india because they love India. They regard India as the last big underdeveloped market opportunity to extract the high returns that are no longer possible in Europe, America and Japan
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What about Alibaba? The Chinese giant is already a stakeholder in Snapdeal so a Flipkart-Snapdeal merger will in effect mean an Alibaba-Amazon duopoly in India
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Between 1992 and 2013, the US spent an annual average of 2.5 per cent of GDP on infrastructure while China spent an average of 8.6 per cent of GDP every year
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