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...Even more than the rest of the world, Indians are already stressed out by the inexorable rise of China, its neighbor, longtime rival and?in 1962?military nemesis. As the Indian politician Jairam Ramesh notes in his new book Making Sense of Chindia, recent years have seen "the mushrooming of a minor industry built around a comparative evaluation of India and China." This exercise is bound to give the former an inferiority complex. India underperforms China on just about every economic indicator. Its economy is smaller, and its growth rates, while impressive, are lower than China's. When Finance Minister...
...eyes of Indian businessmen, the biggest difference between the two countries is China's modern infrastructure?basic commercial necessities such as roads, airports and electricity powerplants. When an Indian tech executive returns from China, "he's so stunned by what he's seen that he usually can't talk for the first two weeks," says Rajesh Rao, the CEO of Dhruva Interactive, a Bangalore-based electronic-game development company. Businessmen like Rao worry that the Chinese are planning for the next 10 years in Shanghai, whereas Bangalore?whose roads are filled with potholes, and whose traffic is a mess...
...exchange reserves in 1991 that the government realized that it had to start overhauling the economy. Many in Bangalore now worry that there is a new economic crisis looming: China. This fear may well prove to be baseless and in time, China could become a vast new market for Indian software companies. For now, though, Indian businessmen like Premji and politicians like Chidambaram are tactically using the Chinese threat to turn up the heat on those who are blocking reform. In a country where politicians and bureaucrats still use shibboleths accumulated over a half-century of socialism to obstruct progress...
Ongoing through December 30. From Nation to Nation: Examining Lewis and Clarkâs Indian Collection. The Peabody Museum. Open daily 9 a.m.-5 p.m. $7.50; students and seniors $6. Free with Harvard ID. Free Sun. 9 a.m.-noon...
Ongoing. The Hall of the North American Indian. The Peabody Museum. Open daily 9 a.m.-5 p.m. $7.50; students and seniors $6. Free with Harvard ID. Free Sun. 9 a.m.-noon...