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Indian Property Wrongs

Originally published in The Wall Street Journal

These are strange days in India, especially when it comes to special economic zones. The left-wing government of West Bengal has been teaming up with the same big foreign corporations it previously claimed to hate, even asking peasants to vacate their land to make room for the companies. Then the right-wing opposition started siding with the grass-roots left to oppose the business interests. What is going on here?

These are strange days in India, especially when it comes to special economic zones. The left-wing government of West Bengal has been teaming up with the same big foreign corporations it previously claimed to hate, even asking peasants to vacate their land to make room for the companies. Then the right-wing opposition started siding with the grass-roots left to oppose the business interests. What is going on here?

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