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What’s amiss in India – is it jugaad?

For decades India has survived, and sometimes thrived, by turning muddle and adversity into success. In the days of the licence Raj, this enabled the country to work, creakily, until systems and machinery broke down and were patched up again. Hindustan Motors’ Ambassador car is perhaps the longest surviving example of patchwork success, with its [...]

By John Elliott from Riding the Elephant blog | The Foreign Desk - International dispatches from Independent correspondents - | Tuesday, 14 February 2012 at 2:18 pm