What Expats Really Think of India - India Real Time - WSJ
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Family members of British expatriates living in New Delhi celebrate Queen Elizabeth II’s diamond jubilee in 2012.
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Expatriates living in India often have gripes, for instance about the heat, the...
It's replying in kind, as I mentioned before. China has not engaged in such cross border firing with any of the countries it is having border trouble (most of them!).
Pakistan on the other hand has problem with 3 out of 4 of its neighbors.
Chinese don't fire, so no firing back to them. Point is, whatever happens at borders is bilateral. You can focus on that and define the relations based on that, or you can use other means to normalize the border. There is no point in making him the devil, when your army is equally, if not more...
There were (non-violent) conflicts with China on the border while the leaders were inking trade deals. Border is non-negotiable, but India is open for trade!
More like socialism doesn't works. After the independence, the entire system was formed with the basis that bureaucracy cannot be trusted, especially the police. Everything under the control of public leaders. They never counted on those leaders being corrupt!
Federal system would not be...
The system is different. More crime in a zone in India means that station is not working efficiently, which is responsibility of the head of that station. Never mind the acute lack of force, political pressures, corruption and so on. The first instinct of any policeman is to avoid registering...
Common story in entire India. Police stations have to show a record at the end of the year of how many crimes were committed in their zone. News where police stations would argue with each other about whose jurisdiction the case would fall in and where they would avoid registering even murder...
It makes a difference. Software engineers and likes doing moral policing is worse than racial/lingual/regional discrimination. One would expect them to behave better than riff raff.
When it happens. Current situation is that yearly FDI in China is greater than GDP of most other countries. There are industries which are not so heavily dependent on labor, besides, everything is cheap in China, given their manufacturing base. An industry in India would have to import half the...
But he is the one to force them in. The bureaucracy can dream up any policy they want, they need approval of political heads. All governments till now were reluctant, even afraid to do major reforms. Something Modi changed.