Subject(s): India in Economic policy in 1991- -- India in Economic conditions in 1947 -- India in Politics and government in 1977- -- Towards developed country status : Growth, Inconsistencies make for discrepancies, Budget as the BSP test, Scrap centrally sponsored schemes, Poverty, Progressing towards 8 per cent growth, Manu Samhit -- Lessons from liberalization: ISI, Beaten by Samsung and China, Non-essential monopolies, Culture, Role of the state, Statistical truth, Democracy , Education, Elections and the reform process, Power, wealth and corruption, Mini-budget -- Travel tale: Indian to Africa, Zanzibar airport, Fidel Castro , Socialism and Chinese style, Liberalization -- Legal labyrinth : Identity, Community policing in India, Judicial system, Allahabad and Kolkata -- Infrastructural inadequacies : Tax bovine urine -- Trade tangles : Lobster quadrille, O this fear of FDI, Canning Doha agenda at Cancun, South Africa, Bovian demands, human efforts, cancun summit fail, G-21 and US-EU positions polarize,