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Budget 2021: An Import Substitution Relapse?
Modiji’s foreign trade policy looks ever more like that of Panditji and his daughter, writes Raj Bhala.
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Jawaharlal Nehru and Indira Gandhi touring Disneyland, Anaheim, California, on Nov. 13, 1961. (Photograph: UCLA Library/LA Times)
Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose. (‘The more things change, the more they stay the same.’) This epigram, coined by Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr, Editor of Le Figaro, in 1848-49, is such a cliché it should be avoided. Except when it’s unavoidable.
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