BEAUTIFUL QUOTES & LOVELY LINES

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The future is limitless—Peter Thiel

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A right cause never fails- M K Gandhi

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“Old soldiers never die, they simply fade away” is an old wartime ballad

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How can you remember someone you cannot forget—Badrinath Singh

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‘To error is human; to forgive, divine’—Alexander Pope, English Poet

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The soldier above all others prays for peace—Douglas Macarthur

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Good words are worth much, and cost little—George Herbert

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Desire is necessary to initiate action

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Mahabharata unlike Ramayana is not about an ideal man. It focuses on ethical and moral conflicts-faced in the pursuit of dharma

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What goes around really comes around

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‘Now that we have made Italy let us make Italians’—Massimo d’Azeglio

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The more people think only of themselves, the more exclusive they become, and less able they become to accept others

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Not every flower in a plant becomes fruit

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Fate’s ironic way of fighting the balance

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                      Krishna is in all and we all are in Krishna                                  

One-in-all and all-in-one is Krishna

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Prices are the only thing that defy the law of gravity

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The promise given was a necessity of the past, the word broken is a necessity of the present—Machiavelli

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‘What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and value of nothing’—OSCAR WILDE

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The future is limitless—Peter Thiel

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A right cause never fails- M K Gandhi

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“Old soldiers never die, they simply fade away” is an old wartime ballad

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How can you remember someone you cannot forget—Badrinath Singh

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‘To error is human; to forgive, divine’—Alexander Pope, English Poet

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The soldier above all others prays for peace—Douglas Macarthur

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Good words are worth much, and cost little—George Herbert

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Desire is necessary to initiate action

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Mahabharata unlike Ramayana is not about an ideal man. It focuses on ethical and moral conflicts-faced in the pursuit of dharma

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What goes around really comes around

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‘Now that we have made Italy let us make Italians’—Massimo d’Azeglio

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The more people think only of themselves, the more exclusive they become, and less able they become to accept others

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Not every flower in a plant becomes fruit

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Fate’s ironic way of fighting the balance

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                      Krishna is in all and we all are in  Krishna                                             

One-in-all and all-in-one is Krishna

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Prices are the only thing that defy the law of gravity

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The promise given was a necessity of the past, the word broken is a necessity of the present—Machiavelli

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‘What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and value of nothing’—OSCAR WILDE

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By Kamlesh Tripathi

BEAUTIFUL LINES & INTERESTING THOUGHTS

§  Mind without heart, intelligence without conduct, cleverness without goodness are tools, but only for mischief.

§  Behave the way you can always behave—Annonymous.

§  Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things- Jesse Jackson.

§  “Even God will not dare to appear in front of a hungry man unless in the form of bread.”- MK Gandhi.

§  Channel the Bob Marley inside you, get up, stand up, don’t give up the fight.

§  People shouldn’t be afraid of their government. Governments should be afraid of their people—Alan Moore.

§  Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody—Benjamin Franklin.

§  I would not wish any companion in the world but you—Shakespeare.

§  The Rig Veda tells us: “Let noble thoughts come to us from everywhere.”

§  “Nobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not complain are never pitied.” 
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice.

§  “The wound is the place where the Light enters you.” 
― Jalaluddin Rumi.

§  “One thing you can't hide - is when you're crippled inside.” 
― John Lennon.

§  Justice as Lord Atkin said is “no cloistered virtue.”

§   Sometimes words that fail to make their effect at the time are remembered later—Agatha Christie.

§  Give your clients the earliest delivery consistent with quality—whatever the inconvenience to us—Arthur Nielson.

§   Opportunities present themselves every day. You just have to be alert and ready to act.—Mark Ostrofsky, US Entrepreneur.

§  Sometimes it’s worse to win a fight than to lose—Billie Holiday.

§  The best of us must sometimes eat our words—JK Rowling.

§  The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation—Bertran Russell.

§  What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and value of nothing—Oscar Wilde.

§  Slow down and steady up—annonymous.

§  All work and no play/makes Jack a dull boy. To which the cautionary response goes ‘All play and no work/ Makes Jack a mere toy.’ TOI Editorial.

§  Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave—Wilson Mazner, US playwright.

§  Never hate your enemies. It affects your judgement- Mario Puzo- Godfather.

§  We’ve seen over time that countries that have the best economic growth are those that have good governance- Ramez Naam US writer.

§  A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue, That’s why there are so few good conversations- Truman.

§  History does not repeat itself exactly but, as Mark Twain put it, it often rhymes.

§  If you have built castles in the air ... now put the foundations under them—Henry David Thoureau.

§  Margaret Thatcher’s warning that those standing in the middle of the road get run over.

§  The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation—Vladmir Lenin.

§  Carlyle- the history of the world is but biography of great men.’ Some so called great men have their hands deep in blood.

§  Boris Pasternak author of Dr Zhivago called silence the best sound on earth.’

§  The greatest obstacle to excellence is you! A caddy once told a champion golfer, “There’s a perfect shot waiting out there. All you have to do is to get yourself out of the way.”

§  In short, I will part with anything for you but you- Mary Wortley Montagu, Writer.

§  By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail- Benjamin Franklin.

§  What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist- Salman Rushdie.

§  There are good times and there are bad times, but one must never forget the hard times—Annonymous.

§  When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry—William Shakespeare.

§  Kritam Lokham Purushoabhijayte- Man himself builds his own world.

§  The boxer Muhammad Ali refused to wear his seat-belt on a plane. “Superman doesn’t need a belt,” he insisted. Tying his belt for him, the stewardess replied, “Superman doesn’t need a plane either.”

§  Exhibitionists: at a wedding they want to be the bride. At a funeral the corpse. Julius Caesar who was an incorrigible egotist, was kidnapped when he was a child. He was held for a ransom of 11,000 gold pieces. Horrified exhorted his captors to raise the sum to 250,000 gold pieces so as to preserve his prestige.

§  You only find out who is swimming naked when the tide goes out—Warren Buffet.

§  The whole of western science has developed from Greek philosophy. It stands on the foundations of Greek Philosophy, and one of Greek philosophy’s basic beliefs is that time travels in a straight line.

§  The bread that falls off your plate nearly always lands on the buttered side.

§  Evil manners live in brass, but our virtues we write in water.

§  There is a Mexican saying that we die three deaths: the first time we die is when our bodies die. The second is when our bodies are lowered into the earth, out of sight. The third time we die is when our loved ones forget us.

§  Being different and thinking different makes a person unforgettable. History does not remember the forgettable- Suzy Kassem, US writer.

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HAPPENING WORLD--FACTS AND PROJECTIONS

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By Kamlesh Tripathi

By some accounts the Pakistani army chief bears a personal grudge against India—his uncle was killed in the 1965 war and his brother in the 1971

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India is known for producing CEOs of Google, Microsoft, Pepsico, Mastercard, Deutsche Bank, etc. And Pakistan? For hoisting heads of Al-qaida, Taliban, Lashkar-e-Taiba, Jaish-e-Muhammed, Haqqani group etc.

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Gandhi arrived in South Africa in 1893 at the age of 23. Within a week he collided head on with racism. His immediate response was to flee the country that so degraded people of colour, but then his inner resilience overpowered him with a sense of mission, and he stayed to redeem the dignity of the racially exploited, to pave the way for the liberation of the colonised the world over and to develop a blueprint for a new social order. He left 21 years later, a near Mahatma (great soul).

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Valmiki gave up life as a robber and meditated for years in penance before he went up to compose the epic Ramayana. He is now revered as the ‘Adi Kavi,’ or the first poet, as he is said to have invented the ‘Shloka,’ the first verse, which defined the form of Sanskrit poetry.

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The trade unions represent 15% of the workforce in the organised sector. 85% represents the unorganised sector.

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Cities are our engines of growth and contribute around 63% of India’s GDP.

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Chikungunya was discovered in 1952, in Tanganyika. Indian dengue was first recorded in Madras in 1780, but the first proven epidemic was in west Bengal, 1963-64, also proving its first chief minister, BC Roy’s claim: ‘What Calcutta does today, the rest of India does tomorrow.’

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Total incidents of violent crime in UP fell dramatically from 1999 to 2003 at the rate of 16% per annum. This period coincided with the time when BJP was in power in the state. However, since 2003 when either BSP or SP have been in power, violent crimes in UP have increased significantly at the rate of over 7%. In comparison Bihar which is the closest to UP in its record of crimes, registered increase in violent crimes at 3% per annum.

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In 2014, violent crime in UP was 25% more than in Bihar.

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India’s direct tax payers form part of a narrow base which contributes more than 50% of the Centre’s total tax revenue.

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In 2012-13, tax department’s data showed that 28.9 million individuals filed tax returns, of whom only about 1.6 million people claimed income above Rs 1 million. When this number is juxtaposed with the 2.6 million cars sold the same year.

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India’s income tax base is unnaturally narrow. It spends less than a rupee to collect Rs 100 of direct tax.

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Indian railways continues to be the lifeline of the nation with over 800 crore trips annually

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Air travel in India is likely to continue to grow quickly for the next 10-12 years. To support this growth, investment in airports is expected to be upwards of Rs 2.5 lakh crore. Around 700 planes could be added to our current fleet of around 450 planes totalling an investment of Rs 3 lakh crores.

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Currently the aviation sector is estimated to directly employ 2 lakh people and 12 lakh people across various parts of the value chain, a multiple of 5.8x. in the next decade the sector could employ more than 5 lakh people directly and 30 lakh overall.

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From more than 90% of aspirants failing the central Teacher’s eligibility test year after year, to teacher absenteeism touching as high as 40% in the poorest states, to the prevalence of English Teachers who just can’t speak English. All around there are signs that teacher recruitment in India is in a bad shape.

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Environment: while the Montreal Protocal is now ratified by 197 countries, the Paris agreement has been ratified by 63 countries representing 52.11% of global greenhouse emissions

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The world bank/IMF estimates the size of Indian economy in 2016 at 2.28 trillion $ making it the world’s 7^th largest. At $270 billion in 2015, Pakistan is the world’s 38^th largest. India’s export of merchandise has powered past 300$ billion and is closing on $500 billion, if you count services, despite a slowdown in 2016. Pakistan’s exports are straining to get past #30 billion. India’s foreign exchange reserves stand at $367 billion; Pakistan is at $20 billion.

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Pakistan is one fourth of India’s size. Has a sixth of its population and poses an equal. Yet India cannot rid itself of Pakistani pestilence.

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Pakistan’s ministry of Overseas told the country’s legislature this week that Saudi Arabia and UAE together hosted nearly 90% of the total Pakistani workforce of 9,48,000 sent overseas last year. Jobs provided to Pakistani by some other counties: Germany 44, Turkey 57, Singapore 68, Japan 84, UK 261 and USA 350.

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HIDDEN FACTS

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By Kamlesh Tripathi

HIDDEN FACTS

A survey shows around 70% of Indians are non-vegetarian these days.

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There is a huge amount of debate about GM crops these days. It has tremendous potential to impact on yields if used with appropriate safeguards. Without GM we need another 175-222 million hectares of farmland to feed our population.

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China on demand side, is trying to nudge its population towards a more vegetarian diet.

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One estimate pegs the economic loss because of Bengaluru traffic congestion at Rs 3,700 crore a year; including a whopping 50 crore litres of annual fuel losses. Extrapolate these figures to Delhi, Mumbai and other Indian cities and we have a full-blown economic crisis on hand.

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Traffic jams: I can easily do 5 or more meetings in a day even if they are spread across Singapore or any European city. In Delhi or Bengaluru, I can never plan more than 2 or maximum 3.”—Rishi Seth—A PR and marketing start-up person.

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Gadkari’s ministry measures its performance in kilometres of new roads built per year. What good are these new roads, or the existing roads for that matter, when they are rank incapable of moving people and goods quickly—Rishi Seth, PR and marketing startup professional.

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India has the worst record of road accident deaths in the world; every four minutes a person dies on our roads.

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India is held at ranson by some of the most corrupt and incompetent civic bodies.

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WHO’s report on Road Safety 2015 gave India a rating of 3 or 4 out of 10 for enforcement of laws on speed limits, drunk driving or wearing helmets on two wheelers.

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Tata sons is into over 100 lines of business.

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In 2016 air passengers in India grew by an impressive 23.17%

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Nearly 4% of New Zealand’s population is of Indian origin and Hindi is the third most widely spoken language in Auckland.

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India is New Zealand’s largest source of skilled migrants and 29,000 Indian students are currently enrolled at our academic institutions making them the 2^nd largest overseas student population studying in New Zealand.

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India’s GDP is valued today at $2 trillion. Amitabh Kant, chief executive of Niti Aayog says if all goes well it could touch $10 trillion by 2032. A shorter term assessment would have it reaching $ 5 trillion in the next decade, by 2025-26.

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India is now the fastest growing major aviation market—the number of air passengers has been growing more than 20% year-on-year. In the past 12 months, more than 9 crore passengers flew and another 5 crores  or so flew internationally. In the next few years India will become the 3^rd largest aviation market in the world after the US and China.

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INTERESTING FACTS

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By Kamlesh Tripathi

The Chinese economy is five times bigger than India’s.

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The Indus Waters Treaty (IWT) reserved for India just 19.48% of the total waters of the six-river Indus system.

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India is selling 25 million smart phones per quarter and the anticipation is 700 million smart phones in hand by 2020. Internet penetration is growing with 332 million internet users in India. Is now second largest international market, ahead of the US.

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Aadhar is the only billion-user platform outside the US and the only government one.

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India is the largest young country in an ageing world and will continue to have a young population for the next 25 years, whereas China has started ageing.

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Thailand has 25 million international visitors per year while India has only 8 million.

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The International monetary fund estimates that Indian percapita income more than tripled from about $550 in 1991 to $ 1800 last year.

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In 1991, the world’s most populous country accounted for a scant 3.6% of global gross domestic product. By 2015 this had nearly doubled to 7%.

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WHO estimates that the average Indian lives 10 years longer today (68 years) than a quarter century ago. But he has yet to catch up with the average Indonesian (69 years), and continues to lag behind the average Chinese (76 years).

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Between 1991 and 2015, India slashed infant mortality by more than half- from 86 deaths to 38 deaths per 1000 births.

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The international Telecommunications Union estimates that mobile subscriptions in India reached 79% of population last year, up from 62% just five years earlier. That sounds awfully impressive until you realise that in China the mobile penetration is 93% and in Indonesia it’s a stratospheric 132%.

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Back in 1950s and 1960s, US steelworks and auto workers were by far most productive in the world, and could demand high, rising wages. But today the workers in developing countries have acquired skills that are almost as good.

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Before the industrial revolution, China and India accounted for over half of world GDP, but their share fell to barely 7% in the 20^th century.

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In the 20^th century Europe was twice devastated by World Wars, letting the US forge ahead. US hegemony followed in the second half of the 20^th century. Even US workers without college degrees had skills that were globally scarce, and so attracted high pay.

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The world Bank says the number of poor people globally more than halved from 1.75 billion in 1990 to just 702 million in 2015; the proportion of people in extreme poverty fell from 37% to 9.6%; and the world Gini coefficient (which measures inequality) fell from 75% to 62%.

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The US is indeed a great country, but for completely different reasons. It has been the most welcoming country for immigrants in history. Half the start-ups in Silicon Valley are by people of Chinese or Indian origin. Many Nobel Prizes have been won by first or second generation immigrants.

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What a lie: Out of the 6753 candidates of the 2009 Lok Sabha elections that were scrutinized, only four admitted that they had exceeded the limit of election spending as prescribed by ECI while 30 said they had spent 90%. The rest claimed that they had spent 52-55%.

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The telecom industry saw only 40% of the spectrum on offer being sold in 2016. In particular, the complete absence of any bids in the 700 MHz and 900 MHz bands came as a rude shock.

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Recently, interesting though intriguing data from 70-80 countries show that anxiety levels increase when there is less work (James Tozer in the Economist, citing a study done by the World Bank, in 2015).

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Economic liberalisation in China and India are commonly thought to have started in 1978 and 1991 respectively.

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