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Economic Perspectives India’s coal crisis is the result of its neoliberal agenda C.P. ChandrasekharThe so-called coal shortage in India was the result of botched policy initiatives that involved curbing public sector mining and getting the private s
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SlideshowCaptured in timeAs independent India turns 75, some of the defining images of those seven decades.
