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...The V&A’s new show, Tropical Modernism, revolves around this odd confluence....
...“I guess they are the correct ones for Karnataka’s future,” said Nandini V, an engineering student. “They will do what they have promised.”...
...RRR became the third highest-grossing film in Indian history with its portrayal of two revolutionaries fighting British Raj rule....
...For Modi’s ruling Bharatiya Janata party, actively shedding the trappings of the British Raj is part of a broader ideological project at the heart of its identitarian politics....
...The plinth has been empty since King George V’s bust was removed in the 1960s. Some wanted to erect Mohandas Gandhi’s statue there....
...The V-Dem Institute at the University of Gothenburg, which tracks data on the health of democracies, recently reclassified the country as an “electoral autocracy”....
...“It’s like a Shakespeare scene,” said V.S. Naipaul. “Only 300 words are spoken but, goodness, terrific things happen!”...
...As US attorney from 2009 to 2017, Mr Bharara embarked on an aggressive crackdown on insider trading including the high-profile prosecutions of Rajat Gupta, Raj Rajaratnam, and SAC Capital....
...Its 1911 tour, backed by business and media interests, coincided with George V’s crowning and the Festival of Empire....
...The Harvard economist Raj Chetty has documented the demise of the American dream: virtually all Americans born in the 1940s, but only about half of those born in the 1980s, earn more than their parents....
...He left Goldman to join Raj Rajaratnam’s Galleon Group before launching his own fund called Ketchem Creek Capital, which he wound down in 2011 to join Nomura....
...the V&A’s courtyard....
...In the Raj, the ruling classes prepare to celebrate King George V’s Silver Jubilee — so do some Indian dissenters, awaiting their chance to “blow the lords and ladies to kingdom come” — while on Corfu, a...
...S Solomon Raj Mumbai, India Rtd Deputy Managing Director, State Bank of India … Letter in response: Regulatory push drives disclosure on bank clients / From Nigel Wilkins...
...‘The Fabric of India’ runs at the V&A in London until January 10 2016 Photographs: V&A...
...A child of late empire, he was born in China in August 1936 in the southern city of Kunming, much closer to the borders with the Raj and French Indochina than to what is now called Beijing....
...Kellaway was absolutely hilarious / From Shauneen Henrick Titles and decorations are yet more clutter / From Christopher Bellew Whistleblower unworthy of space in your columns / From S Solomon Raj...
...Figures of Lakshmi, the Hindu goddess of wealth, stand alongside pictures of King George V....
...The eight triptychs on show at the V&A are a testament to Husain’s vision. They mix traditional mythological stories with scenes of everyday life, as if they were inseparable....
...The most important step was to take on the “licence Raj” – the system of government permits that regulated who could open a new business or offer a new product....
...When we were playing the Roses matches [Lancashire v Yorkshire] we’re talking 30,000. In those days people would arrange their holidays to watch county cricket.”...
...From Mr A.V. Rajwade....
...Masterpieces of Chinese Painting: 700-1900, edited by Zhang Hongxing, V&A Publishing, RRP£40/$60 The world’s oldest painting tradition explored in the glorious catalogue to the V&A’s current, once-in-a-lifetime...
...It tells the story of Simran, a middle-class girl from a traditional, London-based Indian family, who falls in love with Raj while travelling in Europe....
...But India alone is burdened with the legacy of the “Licence Raj” that preceded the reforms that opened the economy after 1991....
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