No Better Way to Turn 70 Than in the Darjeeling Hills

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Sixty years on from independence, as the darker side of the Raj fades into history, it is intriguing to see how Indians have come to appreciate the lighter side of its huge legacy, from the rule of law to irrigation schemes.

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No Better Way to Turn 70 Than in the Darjeeling Hills

F orty years ago I met a leading industrialist who had just returned from a visit to India, very depressed. He could see no future for a people who seemed to him fatalistically resigned to antimaterialism, mass poverty and the backward, corrupt, bureaucratically hamstrung state of their economy. 'The problem with India, ' he said despairingly, 'is the problem of want creation.' If he could return to India today, he would rub his ey...

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