India: the dark reality behind the west's idea of the sub-continent's success

The path to prosperity is not as straight and smooth as many would like to believe In the centre of Delhi, one of the world's biggest, dirtiest, noisiest cities, is an island of calm. Here, government ministers live in vast, state-owned villas; judges, generals and senior bureaucrats walk their dogs across well-watered lawns as servants scrub their government cars; top politicians confer in compounds and the wives of unimaginably wealthy industrialists ... Full Story »