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Shruti Rajagopalan's Newsletter on Indian Political Economy.
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Want to play a losing game? Try converting land use in West Bengal … (opens the original)
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West Bengal’s new government says it wants to revive industry and attract investment. The first challenge is whether investors can easily access land in a state where almost two-thirds of the land is still defined as cultivable land. Although agriculture need not completely disappear, industrial expansion will require shifting land from agricultural to industrial and other non-agricultural uses. Especially when in the middle of high economic growth and structural transformation, landowners choos
Psalm: Happy Birthday, Coltrane (opens the original)
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The first time I heard John Coltrane was twenty-five years ago, and I didn’t even realize I was listening to him. He was one of two saxophonists on Kind of Blue, and I couldn’t tell them apart. A few more listens made the difference between Coltrane’s tenor and “Cannonball” Adderley’s alto clear to the ear, though I still knew nothing about either man. Once I could tell the two saxophone sounds apart, I noticed the tenor solos literally took off, and Coltrane’s lack of patience made me very curi
Homer’s Guide to the Galaxy (opens the original)
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I was a teenager when I first learned about the fjords of Norway. They were designed by a man called Slartibartfast, who worked in the coastline department of a firm that built planets to order, and his work on Norway won him an award. That is how Douglas Adams tells it in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Last week I saw Hjørundfjorden. And I must say, the award was well deserved.Traveling through the Sunnmøre archipelago, I keep coming back to the idea that Hitchhiker’s is a Homeric work.
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