Indians now jet across the country for concerts and cricket matches. “Spiritual tourism” is also in vogue, leading hotels to open in places like Ayodhya, the site of a grand new temple. “Suddenly ...

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I N 1971 RICHARD NIXON, then America’s president, announced a “war on cancer”. Just two years earlier the Apollo programme ...