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Campaign trail blues
Asia focus, Narendra Kaushik, Published on 13/05/2019
» Rajesh Agarwal recalls the 1980s with fond nostalgia. Whenever Indians went to the polls back then, business was brisk for the co-owner of Chhagan Lal & Sons, an international promotional merchandise company based in Jaipur.
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Unsocial media: religious insults spread online in India
Asia focus, Narendra Kaushik, Published on 20/11/2017
» Iqbal Jaildar has had his hands full in the last two months. The head of the panchayat (local council) in Bichhor, a village 90 kilometres south of Delhi, he has been busy defusing communal tension triggered by offensive social media posts by both Hindu and Muslim young people.
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Mission to India
Asia focus, Narendra Kaushik, Published on 13/06/2016
» Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha can expect a warm welcome when he arrives in India on Thursday, but no endorsement, implicit or explicit, of the military regime he heads.
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Connected at last
Asia focus, Narendra Kaushik, Published on 16/05/2016
» There are dark circles under his eyes. His smile displays teeth stained by constant chewing of betel leaves. His vest hangs out from under his shirt along with an evident paunch. Open buttons under the collar expose a gold chain he proudly flaunts.
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Green wheels: Rooftop garden sprouts on a car
Asia focus, Narendra Kaushik, Published on 02/12/2019
» It was sometime in January 2017 that K Suresh, a civil lawyer in the Bengaluru High Court, got the idea of doing his part for a clean environment. He decided to grow a garden on top of his car.
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Plans take shape for Hindu mega-temple in Ayodhya
Asia focus, Narendra Kaushik, Published on 23/12/2019
» Emboldened by a Supreme Court decision that came down on the side of Hindus, the Indian government is pressing ahead with plans for a major temple complex and tourist attraction at a long-disputed site in Ayodhya in Uttar Pradesh state.
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Farewell to the Jet set
Asia focus, Narendra Kaushik, Published on 29/04/2019
» Sana Thomas doesn't know how she is going to make her next mortgage payment and take care of her parents.
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Ex-con prefers jail to loneliness of freedom
Asia focus, Narendra Kaushik, Published on 26/03/2018
» Pushkar Dutt Bhatt lives the way people in primitive times did in India. He has no electricity, tap water or washroom in his house. He cooks his food on firewood and bathes in the natural pool located two kilometres from his residence.
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Single screens, multiple pains
Asia focus, Narendra Kaushik, Published on 06/02/2017
» A few decades ago, the family of Mukund Sanghi, a film producer based in Udaipur, owned 20 cinemas in Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh states. Over the years 19 of them have closed for various reasons. The only one remaining, the Ashoka in Udaipur, is now run by Fun Cinemas, a brand owned by the international exhibitor Cinépolis.
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Digital silver lining
Asia focus, Narendra Kaushik, Published on 26/12/2016
» Sunil Kaushik, alias Sonu, has never had it so easy.
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