What does Starbucks’ entry mean for the roughly half-a-million Indian farmers who grow coffee and 600,000 others involved in roasting, trading and other corollary industries?
For all its lack of democracy and muffling of dissidence, the People’s Republic seems to be doing just fine. The pride its youth display in their homeland could be the envy of regimes anywhere
TCA Raghavan is a former Indian High Commissioner to Pakistan and Singapore. His first book, Attendant Lords: Abdur Rahim and Bairam Khan: Courtiers and Poets in Mughal India, was awarded the Mohammad Habib Prize by the Indian History Congress. He is also the author of The People Next Door: The Curious History of India’s Relations with Pakistan and History Men: Jadunath Sarkar, G S Sardesai, Raghubir Sinh and Their Quest for India’s Past. His latest book is Circles of Freedom: Love, Friendship and Loyalty in the Indian National Struggle