To take a more recent example, Arundhati Roy, India's Booker-prize novelist, not long ago wrote a long and impassioned article in one of India's weekly magazines portraying capitalists, especially foreign ones, as plunderers.

ECONOMIST: India��s choices

But Sadhana Srivastava, in an article in India's Economic and Political Weekly, has recalculated both India's and China's figures for the year 2000 to make a fairer comparison.

ECONOMIST: India��s fear of China

According to a recent poll in India Today, a weekly magazine, just 11% of those who support him do so because of his party.

ECONOMIST: Greater expectations

It handles 25, 000 to 50, 000 changes to its database weekly, taxing 250 programmers in Wadhwani's native India.

FORBES: Chain gang