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Blog Entries by Christopher Lydon from 08/2010

Real India: A Land Soon Without Tigers, and Maybe Orchids (AUDIO)

| Posted 08.05.2010 | World
Read More: India, Suprabha Seshan, Bangalore, Chris Lydon, Radio, Kerala, Green, Environment, Conservation, Forests, Brown University, World News

The "New India" has delivered itself into a deadly trap of consumerism, pollution, ruined forests and rivers, a "virtual" prosperity but a profoundly un-natural India.

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Real India: A Historian's Cautions on "The Indian Century" (AUDIO)

| Posted 08.06.2010 | World
Read More: History, India, South Asia, Ramachandra Guha, Pluralism, Radio Conversation, Books, Democracy, Gandhi, Christopher Lydon, Asian Century, World News

Ramachandra Guha, the provocative, critical historian of India After Gandhi, has vitality and charisma to match his country's. Writing and talking with fire-hose force, he's come to mirror India's sense of it's 63-year-old self.

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Real India: At Koshy's Cafe, The Talk of Bangalore (AUDIO)

| Posted 08.13.2010 | Politics
Read More: Koshy's, Politics, India, Bangalore, Chris Lydon, Christopher-Lydon, Cafe Culture, Casablanca, Real India, Christopher Lydon, Multinational Corporations, Poverty, Pakistan, Economy, Information Technology, Urbanism, Industry, Entrepreneurship, India Pakistan Relations, Rural Development, Politics News

"... And our nation, though it has no drinking water, electricity, sewage system, public transportation, sense of hygiene, discipline, courtesy or ...

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Walking the Slum Side of Bangalore (AUDIO)

| Posted 08.16.2010 | World
Read More: Brinda Adige, India, Bangalore, Social Entrepreneurship, Activism, Radio, Community, Development, Christopher Lydon, Brown University, Domestic Violence, Slum, Human Trafficking, World News

BANGALORE -- Brinda Adige, a self-starting social activist, in yellow sari, is our guide to the slum side of Bangalore and the virtual canyon betw...

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