"We're Indians from southern India, " Ajay said.

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Access to electricity is far from universal in India, and Indians are accustomed to regular power outages in particular neighborhoods or sections of cities.

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Ravi Sikund, who has spent most of his career representing Owens Corning and other firms in India, thinks there is money to be made from training Indians to talk like Britons or Americans.

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Indians pondering the roots of sexism debate many possible influences, from the machismo of swaths of northern India, to mythology, to caste.

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In 2010, after suspicions that crimes in Melbourne against Indian students were racially motivated, the number of university applications from India fell by half, reducing what is a big source of income for Australia (Indians are the second-largest group of foreigners studying in the country).

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Suresh Kumar, from one Rajasthan travel service, says not only foreigners but also non-resident Indians prefer to come to India to marry.

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India is seen as a big success story of globalisation, but only a minority of Indians benefitted materially from the high growth.

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