Wednesday, 5 June 2013

The Economic Times: Poke Me: Government is responsible for India's craze for gold

Indians, it is said, have a strange love for gold that seems to border on an as yet unnamed manic obsession. The world uses gold in jewellery. But we believe we have surpassed everyone in the innovative ways we use gold. We wear it, we drape it, we eat it and eat from it, we drink it and drink from it, we pray to it, we put it in our medicines, in our cold creams, in the various concoctions used for facials and massages. Strangely though, we have not yet figured out a way of having sex with it. Or have we?

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