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Ten English films with
an Indian touch
Ten leaders with India
in their blood
Ten Indians who
arent quite
- Alvin Kallicharan
- Asif Iqbal
- Colin Cowdrey
- Deepak Patel
- Douglas Jardine
- Nasser Hussain
- Pataudi Sr
- Ranjitsinhji
- Rohan Kanhai
- Sonny Ramadhin
- Bhawani Junction
- Close Encounters of the Third Kind
- Holy Smoke
- Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
- Jungle Book
- Little Buddha
- Man Who Would Be King
- Nine Hours to Rama
- Octopussy
- Passage to India
- Anirudh Jagganauth
- Clarence Chandran
- Frene Noshir Ginwalla
- Indira Nooyi
- Keith Vaz
- Max Vadukul
- Mahender Chaudhury
- Melvin Durai
- Vinod Khosla
- Zain Verjee
- Anaida
- Bob Christo
- Cheema Okerie
- Jean Dreze
- Laurie Baker
- Louis Banks
- Robin Singh
- Simone Tata
- Sophiya Haque
- Udit Narain
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BUREAUCRACY
When he is the great-catch suitable boy whom the marriage broker has brought home for your daughter, he is called the IAS officer. When you have to go to him for clearance-of- factory-site, he is a bloody bureaucrat. We have always known him. He is the guy who studied all night when he was young, passed an exam which clears one out of every 100 who write it, and now stands reverently besides a 5th standard dropout to get a signature or a thumb impression. Apart from this, its not clear what he does but whatever it is that he does, it is called bureaucracy. And who doesnt know what that means in India id est Bharat in circa 2001?
RAILWAYS & POSTS
More than 62,915 km of railway lines and 12,617 km of double tracks carry over 1.2 crore people every day, each one of them paying about 20 paise per kilometre. India doesnt exist anywhere but outside the window of a moving train that may or may not derail. Strangers talk across the berths, addresses are exchanged and marriages are fixed. And, on the platforms, life never changes: the same sights, the same sounds. Howrah-Cochin Mail running 14 hours late. Thats why the postman is also always late. But he has united many generations of lovers, estranged an equal number, reassured a few million mothers. And, when he is on time, take it for granted that the unbelievable has happened.
