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        <title><![CDATA[Shruti Rajagopalan - Senior Research Fellow]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[Why India Can’t Repeat Its 1991 Miracle]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[The ideas that opened up the Indian economy 30 years ago benefited from a system that was readier to receive them. ]]></description>
            <link>https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-07-24/modi-s-india-isn-t-ready-to-embrace-1991-style-economic-reforms</link>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Shruti Rajagopalan]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Sat, 24 Jul 2021 00:00:11 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>DELHI, INDIA - OCTOBER 17: Indian Prime Mnister Manmohan Singh awaits the arrival of Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard during her ceremonial reception at the Indian presidential palace Rashtrapati Bhavan on October 17, 2012 in Delhi, India. Gillard is on an official three day visit to India where she is expected to discuss the sale of uranium to the nuclear armed country. (Photo by Daniel Berehulak/Getty Images)</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Biden Needs to Come to India’s Aid Now]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[The U.S. should lift export restrictions and donate unused vaccines to help stem the world’s most terrifying Covid-19 outbreak. ]]></description>
            <link>https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-04-24/u-s-should-donate-covid-19-vaccines-to-stem-india-crisis</link>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 24 Apr 2021 00:00:03 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>Crematoriums are filling up. </media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[India Needs to Move Vaccines to Warp Speed]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[The country should use the market to get more shots into more arms faster. ]]></description>
            <link>https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-04-05/india-should-use-the-market-to-speed-up-covid-19-vaccinations</link>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 05 Apr 2021 00:30:07 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>India has only approved two vaccines thus far. </media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[India Bitcoin Ban Would Be a Terrible Idea]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[The country’s previous attempts at currency controls impoverished Indians and prevented its companies from competing globally. This one won’t work any better.  ]]></description>
            <link>https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-03-19/bitcoin-ban-proposed-in-india-is-a-bad-idea</link>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2021 00:30:10 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>An engineer removes a mining rig draw housing graphics processing units (GPU) at the Evobits crypto farm in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, on Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2021. The worlds second-most-valuable cryptocurrency, Ethereum, rallied 75% this year, outpacing its larger rival Bitcoin.</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Women Won’t Recover Easily From India’s Pandemic]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[The Covid-19 crisis has made their already daunting road to economic and social independence even more difficult. ]]></description>
            <link>https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2020-12-20/india-s-covid-19-pandemic-recession-hurts-women-most</link>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 20 Dec 2020 00:00:19 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>A family wearing facemasks as a preventive measure against the Covid-19 coronavirus waits for their bus at a stop in New Delhi on November 16, 2020. (Photo by Prakash SINGH / AFP) (Photo by PRAKASH SINGH/AFP via Getty Images)</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Why India Wants to Claim Kamala]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Birth matters above all for many Indians, but the Democratic vice presidential candidate is defined more by her choices than her ancestry. ]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2020 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>WILMINGTON, DE - AUGUST 12: Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden&apos;s running mate Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) speaks during an event at the Alexis Dupont High School on August 12, 2020 in Wilmington, Delaware. Harris is the first Black woman and first person of Indian descent to be a presumptive nominee on a presidential ticket by a major party in U.S. history. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[In India, Don’t Hate the Matchmaker]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[A Netflix hit about arranged marriages reflects Indian society a lot more than critics want to admit. ]]></description>
            <link>https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2020-08-02/netflix-s-indian-matchmaking-is-only-too-accurate</link>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 02 Aug 2020 00:00:02 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>A Hindu priest (C) performs marital rituals for a couple wearing facemasks in a temple during a new lockdown imposed as a preventive measure against the COVID-19 coronavirus in Siliguri on July 28, 2020. (Photo by Diptendu DUTTA / AFP) (Photo by DIPTENDU DUTTA/AFP via Getty Images)</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[How India’s Most Downtrodden Embraced the Power of Statues]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[India’s so-called untouchables have shown there’s another way to resist historical oppression. ]]></description>
            <link>https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2020-07-08/in-india-dalits-show-power-of-building-statues</link>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2020 18:30:26 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>A sanitation worker garlands a statue of India&apos;s social reformer B. R. Ambedkar on the occasion of his 64th death anniversary, during a government-imposed nationwide lockdown as a preventive measure against the COVID-19 coronavirus, in Amritsar on April 14, 2020. (Photo by NARINDER NANU / AFP) (Photo by NARINDER NANU/AFP via Getty Images)</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[India’s States Are a Little Too United]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Optimists who think local leaders are about to follow one another in slashing regulations to attract investment are likely to be disappointed again. ]]></description>
            <link>https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2020-06-11/india-s-states-won-t-compete-to-cut-regulations</link>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2020 00:30:31 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>New labor rules in Uttar Pradesh may not translate. </media:description>
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