A suspense drama featuring a rising superpower and a starving nation
Jekyll-and-Hyde India
-The Times of India, January 27, 2012
"Can a country have a split personality? Can a nation be a Dr Jekyll and a Mr Hyde, as in R L Stevenson's classic tale about the good and the evil that coexists within the individual?"
India is at one time Dr Jekyll and at another Mr Hyde, says Jug Suraiya. At one time, India boasts of its large and ever-increasing economy; military and nuclear capability; cultural power, and technical know-how that can humble most people in the world. On the other hand, it hosts millions of people that go hungry, and a large number of people being undernourished, notwithstanding the appalling state of living that children are faced with.
India is too quick to take offence, he says, whenever the truth of its split personality emerges.
Jekyll-and-Hyde India
-The Times of India, January 27, 2012
"Can a country have a split personality? Can a nation be a Dr Jekyll and a Mr Hyde, as in R L Stevenson's classic tale about the good and the evil that coexists within the individual?"
India is at one time Dr Jekyll and at another Mr Hyde, says Jug Suraiya. At one time, India boasts of its large and ever-increasing economy; military and nuclear capability; cultural power, and technical know-how that can humble most people in the world. On the other hand, it hosts millions of people that go hungry, and a large number of people being undernourished, notwithstanding the appalling state of living that children are faced with.
India is too quick to take offence, he says, whenever the truth of its split personality emerges.
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