A shining India may have created the world's cheapest car and the world's most successful cricket league but the images from the Oscar-winning movie Slumdog Millionaire are – doubtless to the great discomfort of the Tatas and Tendulkars – still the truer portrayals of reality.
Just look at the data from the UN's latest Human Development Report, a measure…
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