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V V: JM Coetzee - The story of himself
All fiction has its autobiographical roots, but Evelyn Waugh puts it as “experience totally transformed”. The autobiographical impulse is particularly strong in JM Coetzee, the South African Nobel Prize winner (2003), but his writings lie at the frontier between life and the freedoms of fiction. Summertime (Harvill Secker, special Indian price Rs 799), the final volume of a trilogy — the other two being Boyhood and Youth — is subtitled Scenes from a Provincial Life, charts the border territory with multiple skills of a biographer and fiction writer so that it can pretty well mean what you would want it to be.

Experts raise growth predictions for India
With a year of downturn behind us, all major economic think tanks and forecasters who earlier expected the growth rate to dive below 6 per cent, are hopeful of above 6 per cent growth in 2009-10 (it was 6.7 per cent last year) and a growth of around 7 per cent in 2010-11. Such a rate of growth would be one of the highest in the world.

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India, World Bank sign $4.2 bn loan deals
Assistance will be used to for infra projects, recapitalsation of PSU banks
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Green activists hope climate summit focuses on emission cuts

As delegates at the Copenhagen summit discuss a new climate treaty, green activists here are hoping that it would focus on emission cuts and safeguarding of biodiversity. - India not acting under pressure on climate change issue: Saran - Obama expects agreement at Copenhagen - Oppn, govt spar over Liberhan, climate change - 35-member Indian delegation for Copenhagen climate talks - Surjit S Bhalla: There is no chindia in copenhagen">Surjit S Bhalla: There is no chindia in copenhagen - Pachauri attacks "climategate" The Bombay Natural History Society (BNHS) and over 100 other NGOs across the world, which are partners of the UK-based BirdLife International, have stressed on replacing the "wasteful and energy-intensive lifestyles with holistic, balanced and energy-saving lifestyles." "As a consequence of climate change about 15-37 per cent of species could be extinct by 2050, according to one global study. If the rise in temperature is more than 2 degree Celsius, it would be catastrophic for birds, nature, people and the global economy," BNHS Director Asad Rahmani said. Sea-level rise will result in large-scale human population shift and further pressures on remaining natural habitats, he warned while calling for appropriate emission cuts to save the biodiversity from devastation. The BirdLife International and its partners have prepared an action plan asking the developed countries to take the lead in cutting emissions so that global temperature increase is capped to less than 2 degree Celsius above pre-industrial levels. At the same time, it said, developing countries should also ensure that their emissions do not reach levels as experienced by developed countries in the past decades. Global emissions should peak and decline by 2020 and go to 80 per cent below 1990 levels by 2050.


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