Woudhuysen

Tag: India

India's untold story

After the war: India’s untold story

Published 10 November 2018

The Indian Army’s contribution to the Allied war effort has been downplayed for far too long

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Dialectical progress in India

India’s dialectic of progress

Published 31 July 2017

Two new books show how far post-independence India has come, and how far it has still to go

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Innovation in India

Where is Indian design going?

Published 17 May 2016

On 17 February 2016 in Mumbai, after a two-year gap, the India Design Forum (IDF) holds its third conference.

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Facebook is not the British Raj

No, Facebook isn’t the British Raj

Published 18 February 2016

The row about India’s access to the internet is a storm in a chai cup.

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The Giants of Asia, Battle of Ideas 2012

The Giants of Asia

Published 21 October 2012

2018 note: With their huge populations and buoyant growth rates, China and India are two of the economic and technological powerhouses of the twenty-first century. And though many seem to forget it after two lost decades, Japan is the third largest economy in the world, the second largest developed economy and the world’s largest creditor nation. Over the past 10 years, too, growth in Japanese GDP per head has also outpaced that of Europe and the US

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Churchill's Secret War by Madhusree Mukerjee

When Churchill starved India

Published 10 November 2010

Today, as Britain seeks diplomatic links with India and as Churchill is championed as a hero of multiculturalism, Madhusree Mukerjee’s shocking account of the exploits of the Empire is well worth reading.

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Letter from India

Published 11 March 2010

On a recent trip to India, James Woudhuysen collected a prize for Excellence in Innovation. As proof, he records the boom and dust of his travels.

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Eco-imperialism is alive and well in the West

Published 12 July 2008

The West’s pleading with China to cut carbon emissions bursts with ulterior motives

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