The week ahead: May 17th 2013: Swede sound of success
Li Keqiang visits India and Pakistan, American psychiatrists gather in San Francisco, Sweden hosts the final of the Eurovision Song Contest and Microsoft unveils its latest console0
Pakistan’s election: Hope over experience
Nawaz Sharif’s third turn as prime minister could be his luckiest20
Pakistan: Hope in a fractured land
Building a normal relationship with India should be Nawaz Sharif’s priority124
India's underemployed youth: Raring to go
Soon India will have a fifth of the world's working-age population. It needs to make 100m new, good jobs fast, or it risks squandering a once-in-a-generation demographic advantage3
Indian historical linguistics: Setting the record straight
Discussions of language in India are distorted by nationalist fantasies of a pure and unbegotten Sanskrit131
The growth of India's working-age population50
Indian politics: Throwing the rascals out
A bad week for both of India’s main parties10
Angry young Indians: What a waste
How India is throwing away the world’s biggest economic opportunity215
India’s demographic challenge: Wasting time
India will soon have a fifth of the world’s working-age population. It urgently needs to provide them with better jobs110
The global economy: Welcome to the post-BRIC world
An end to a transformative era35
Private schools abroad: On the playing fields of Shanghai
Some of England’s best-known private schools are rushing to set up satellites abroad. But the market may be reaching saturation point23
English and Dravidian: Unlikely parallels
Languages a world apart have a similar habit of borrowing elevated vocabulary from other languages152
India and China square off: High stakes
From the Indian side, it is hard to understand what China might be thinking517
The Q&A: Mira Nair: Two sides to every story
The director of “The Reluctant Fundamentalist” on why this film will bridge understanding between Islam and the West1
Youth unemployment: Generation jobless
Around the world almost 300m 15- to 24-year-olds are not working. What has caused this epidemic of joblessness? And what can abate it?71
Social policies: Time to scrap affirmative action
Governments should be colour-blind1067
Work and the young: Generation jobless
The number of young people out of work globally is nearly as big as the population of the United States243
The Bay of Bengal: New bay dawning
Harbours on the eastern lobe of the Indian Ocean could transform the economic geography of Asia2
Markets and makers: Running harder
Carmaking can still be highly profitable, but manufacturers have to work at it2
Propulsion systems: The great powertrain race
Carmakers are hedging their bets on powering cars14
Why everyone wants to be in the top end of the market6
It is the profit motive, not Asian tradition, that endangers rhinos, elephants, tigers and sharks11
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