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    One afternoon at the prestigious New Delhi Golf Club, where groups of women were preparing to tee off, in (American-style) golf visors, one woman official revealed that female membership had grown from 66 to 220 in two years. "Golf is more than crazy popular here" said Hanisha Daryani. Full Article at The Independent
    Golf is more than crazy popular here
    SOURCE: The Independent 28 months ago
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India at 60: special report
  1. We believe in manufacturing in India, but we don't believe in logistics in India – yet
    SOURCE: The Independent 28 months ago
  2. At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will wake up to life and freedom.
    SOURCE: The Independent 28 months ago
  3. It's the culture changing. There is a change in the mindset. If people go to the US they will bring things back to India. Society cannot be stagnant.
    SOURCE: The Independent 28 months ago
  4. There is no understanding whatsoever of what price is being paid by the rivers and mountains and irrigation and ground water, there is no questioning of that because we are on a roll.
    SOURCE: The Independent 28 months ago
  5. That's what the rickshawallahs have
    SOURCE: The Independent 28 months ago
  6. They are materialists, believing in substance. There is a continuity, a constant flow of substance from context to context, from non-self to self – in eating, breathing, sex, sensation, perception, thought, art or religious experience.
    SOURCE: The Independent 28 months ago
  7. In a nutshell, it's a loss with very long-term consequences
    SOURCE: The Independent 28 months ago
  8. She's only interested in going to America
    SOURCE: The Independent 28 months ago
  9. Even if you know what is going on, you can't help thinking India is this cool place now, Bollywood is 'in' and all of us have mobile phones
    SOURCE: The Independent 28 months ago
  10. A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new, when an age ends, and when the soul of a nation, long suppressed, finds utterance.
    SOURCE: The Independent 28 months ago

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