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China vs India

China touches fifty. So does India.

For China, it was their best Olympics. India too, never had it better.

And for the first time, I can understand why people talk about China and India being competitors for world domination.
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Indrajeet said…
Hey nice one...thats the reason probably both the country's names are taken in the same breath..Indochina(or Chindia)...but its upto us what to decipher from that...
Thursday, 11 September, 2008
Vishwa Bandhu said…
are we really competing with China??.. or just pretending...

competition is always between two equals..
India and China have very different kind of growth and ..in almost every field china is far ahead to us...right now
Tuesday, 23 September, 2008
Utpal said…
India definitely is not a competitor to China. And thank God for it.
Our social and political lineage is so different from them that our political, social and economic evolution trajectories will be different from them. Just like it should be.
Tuesday, 23 September, 2008
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