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Still on the road to moksha… Prices are rising in India – pushed up by the high cost of food. Thanks partly to a disastrous government policy of encouraging the over-use of chemical fertilizer, food prices are shooting up. In a poor country, food is a bigger part of the family budget than in a rich…Read more…

We have come to Bombay to get a good look at India – at least the part of it you can see from a 10th floor room at the Taj Mahal Hotel. Which isn’t much. The air is too dense. Still, we can make out the figures of whole families eating and sleeping on the…Read more…

The Economist has recently released its latest Big Mac Index, where Norway still reigns supreme with the most expensive burger around. When I was in Oslo a few months ago I tried desperately to get my hands on one of these must be better than average, almost $7 burgers, but to no avail. When hunger…Read more…