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Friday, September 16, 2016

Leverage Your Dollars, India

Eyes set on poll pie, BJP promises UP a highway boom 

It is said India needs a trillion dollars in infrastructure spending right away.

India sits on almost 400 billion dollars in reserves. 100 billion could safely be leveraged into a trillion dollars.

The private public song and dance is quite nice.

Unstable Kashmir

Narendra Modi is implementing the Doval doctrine in Kashmir 

An unstable, repressed Kashmir will have a toxic effect on India’s polity, polarising society and poisoning its public sphere -- in ways that suppression of Palestinians has changed Israeli society and lurched the country to the Right. The Doval doctrine is, in short, a violent experiment that will destabilise India. Its use and application must stop now.