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Why Is China Reviving Its Plan to Build Dams on the Brahmaputra Now?
While Western and Indian defence analysts have assumed that the move is to keep India in its place , there could be a more plausible reason.
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Even as Chinese and Indian troops are disengaging rapidly in Ladakh, Beijing has taken a decision that, if implemented will, one day, do a hundred times more damage to India than a war in Ladakh can do. This is to lift a decade-long embargo on hydropower âprojects in the lower reaches of the Yarlung Tsangpo (Brahmaputra) river in Tibet. This anodyne declaration will revive the most dangerous, and unnecessary hydroelectric project ever contemplated by any government on this planet.
On Netflix, âThe White Tigerâ steps outside the rooster coop
By Ty Burr Globe Staff,Updated January 20, 2021, 11:53 a.m.
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Adarsh Gourav and Priyanka Chopra in âThe White Tiger.â âSingh Tejinder/Netflix
âThe White Tiger,â a prizewinning 2008 novel by Aravind Adiga, has been turned into a ferocious Netflix original by Ramin Bahrani, the Iranian-American filmmaker whose dramas of the US underclass â including âGoodbye Soloâ (2008) and â99 Homesâ (2015) â have readied him for this swirling, scalding portrait of Indiaâs class war.
Itâs the coming-of-age story of Balram Halwai (Adarsh Gourav), a smart kid from a low caste in a rural village. Meaning a young man whose every avenue in life is blocked from birth. But when the story opens, Balram is a slick, successful entrepreneurial dandy narrating his life story in a letter to Chinaâs Premier Wen Jiabo. (The film takes place in the mid-2000