Things To Read: A Brief Recent History of India

Things To Read: A Brief Recent History of India

I’m not sure how best to tease you into reading this piece in Triple Canopy on India, Slumdog Millionaire, money, terrorism and globalism, besides the fact that it coins the phrase “Regis ex machina,” which, how jealous are you about that? And there’s this: “In 2007, Mukesh Ambani-the energy tycoon who later said ‘a fear-psychosis is being created to slow projects of national importance’ when forty thousand protesters forced the return of expropriated farmland on which the Tata Nano factory was to have been built-was named Forbes’s richest man in the world: the first Indian thus distinguished. Shortly afterward, he set up a new company to fund the films of Steven Spielberg and started building for himself, his mother, his wife, and his three children a two-billion-dollar, sixty- story house on land that had been set aside for a Muslim orphanage.” It’s also available as a handy PDF download in case you find the side-scrolling unbearable!