Detail The India advantage.   Oleh:  Tharoor, Ishaan Jenis: Article from Bulletin/Magazine Dalam koleksi: Time Magazine vol. 170 no. 06 (Aug. 2007), page 40. Topik: India; Democracy; East; West Ketersediaan Perpustakaan PKPM Nomor Panggil: T7 Non-tandon: 2 (dapat dipinjam: 0) Tandon: tidak ada     Lihat Detail Induk Isi artikel Democracy is loud and messy, but its resilience in India shows that it is neither alien to Asia nor an obstacle to prosperity. At the height of Britain's Empire in India, Rudyard Kipling famously declared, "Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet." Kipling thought the cultural gap between the colonizers and the colonized was unbreachable, but India's sophisticated independence movement, uniting Oxbridge thinkers and mass protests, proved him wrong. To be sure, Kipling's axiom still echoes in India today--not for divides of geography, but class. Beneath the glitz of India's ebullient film industry or the sheen of chrome-and-glass IT centers, a vast, confusing and poor India lurches onward. It shares little with the country's jet-setting globalist, high-powered intellectuals or high-rolling industrialists. It knows more about enduring hardship than enhancing hardware. Yet, again in India, the twain do meet. Sixty years of freedom have bound all Indians, rich and poor, to a single commitment; democracy. Opini Anda Klik untuk menuliskan opini Anda tentang koleksi ini! Kembali

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