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Outlook: 23/09/2009

23/09/2009

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India's Green Crusader, 89 Voices in Romania , the New York Times restaurant critic.

India's Green Crusader
Subhas Dutta has become famous for championing a succession of environmental causes in India.  These include preventing a renowned green space in Calcutta from being turned into a car park and forcing the government to withdraw sixty thousand old cars which were polluting the city.  And he's not finished yet. He's now planning to set up India's first ever Green Party 

89 Voices 
All this week Outlook is hearing from the twenty year olds who were born as communism crumbled in Eastern Europe in 1989. Today Cristina Pasat visits Ceaucescu's infamous prison in Bucharest. 

Frank Bruni
The outgoing restaurant critic of the New York Times tells us about his complex relationship with food and the perils of his job. His book about his experiences as a restaurant critic is called "Born Round: The secret history of a full time eater".

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