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India Today Editor-in-Chief Aroon Purie talks about changes of the past decade that he says are likely to critically shape the new one.

read the hopeful title of a 2005 book by columnist Thomas L. Friedman. The metaphor, derived from a statement by Indian IT czar Nandan Nilekani, encapsulated the inter-connected globalised world of liberal democracies that promoted the free movement of goods, capital and people. We are now just days away from the beginning of the third decade of the second millennium. Friedman's description of the world seems to have been turned on its head. The world is veering away from liberalism towards authoritarianism

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