The finance minister, Amit Mitra, an economist and former boss of India's main business lobby, stands in an office in Writers' Building, once used by the East India Company.

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Courier was for the creative set, a gadget on which architects might begin to sketch building plans, or writers might begin to draft documents.

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The result has been a push towards long, thoughtful essays on current affairs, attempts at building a star system of writers and so on.

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