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The Needle’s Eye
Polls? Economy? Hygiene? No, It’s the Population! 

9th Oct 2014, The Economic TimesBy Chaitanya KalbagMarch 21, 2025Leave a comment

I was chatting with my barber in Gurgaon when I realised that Narendra Mo­di and the hundreds of other politicians campaigning in the Haryana and Mah­arashtra assembly elections were not ut­tering the P word.  Salman, the young hair-cutter, said he was the second of nine children of a se­poy in the Indian Army — the…

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