INDIA DIARYBY COOMI KAPOOR
IT IS the biggest giveaway in the history of free India. Though governments all over the world are known to have indulged in populist measures to woo voters on election eve, yet never before had an Indian finance minister written off loans totalling 600 billion rupees (RM49.5bil) with a single stroke.
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