Interesting article on how magazines are thriving in India, while they seem to be tanking here...

Quoted: An explosion of Western magazines has hit newsstands in India in the past year, pitching a familiar mix of gossip, relationship advice and expensive goodies.

Quoted: According to the New York Post, the two will meet in August to begin work on the project, which will be used as the main tle to the upcoming film Singh is Kinng.

I'm not sure that it's entirely about reforms. I don't think India's economy is diversified enough that it wouldn't be feeling the effects of a U.S./global slump... Plus, its previous rapid rate of growth was unsustainable. Seems like a combination of factors.

Quoted: Growth is slipping, stocks are down 40%, and foreign stock market investors are fleeing. Business blames the ruling coalition for failing to make reforms.

Quoted: A long-brewing separatist movement in the Darjeeling hills had, until recently, receded into the past so thoroughly that it became fodder for fiction, setting the ...

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