They can't ignore India now The nuclear tests shot the subcontinent to the centre of world attention. That might have been the point of the whole exercise

From: The Independent (London, England) | Date: May 17, 1998| Author: | Copyright information

SOME weeks ago the BBC Nine O' Clock News had a peculiar little item about a man from the Home Counties who had travelled to India for a cataract operation because of waiting lists at his local hospital. The story was not quite all that it seemed. The man was of Indian descent and had relatives in India, whom he visited regularly. He had simply taken the opportunity during one of these visits to go to a private clinic and pay to have his clouded vision cleared. The reason that it made the news was the implication: waiting lists are so long in Sussex that a patient will go even to India for a ...

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