Sometimes an article you read in the paper can help you change for the better. Or so I thought as I put down the novelist Ann Patchett’s wonderful account of giving up shopping for clothes and electronics last year and being much the happier for it.
I figured keeping such a New Year resolution would be easy because I grew up on hand-me-downs and that trick of flipping a collar that had frayed in the Kolkata of the 1970s. In many ways though, thanks to Narasimha Rao, Manmohan Singh and countless entrepreneurs, India is a different country since 1991. My joyless procurement of a ...
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First Published: Fri, January 26 2018. 20:44 IST
