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A Red Scare In Delhi.(World Affairs)(communism; Prakash Karat)(Cover story)

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| December 03, 2007 | Moreau, Ron; Mazumdar, Sudip | COPYRIGHT 2007 Newsweek, Inc. All rights reserved. Any reuse, distribution or alteration without express written permission of Newsweek is prohibited. For permission: www.newsweek.com. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Byline: Ron Moreau and Sudip Mazumdar

With the nuclear pact and a booming economy, India seems set to vault into the future -- unless the Stalinist left succeeds in dragging it down.

From his fortress-like red sandstone headquarters near New Delhi's Connaught Place -- a bustling commercial hub lined with McDonald's, foreign banks and boutiques -- Prakash Karat, India's reigning communist ideologue, is fighting to kill his country's economic- and political-reform process. If Karat gets his way, India will turn its back on its recent much-touted modernization -- which, under Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, has led to 9 percent growth for four years now. ...

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