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From Our Own Correspondent: Mexico and India

Mexico and India

BBC World Service - From Our Own Correspondent, Mexico and India

Insight and wit from Will Grant on Mexico's election and Anthony Denselow on Indian ruins.

Pascale Harter with dispatches from correspondents and writers worldwide. Will Grant weighs up Mexico's election campaign; Anthony Denselow feels tensions over ancient ruins and modern lives in Hampi.

Insight, wit and analysis from BBC correspondents, journalists and writers from around the world. Presented by Pascale Harter. In this edition:


A tale of a man and three women

On Sunday, Mexicans will elect a new president. Many are predicting a return to power for the once-immovable and aptly-named Instititional Revolutionary Party or PRI. The campaign so far has been both lavish and bitter. But for our correspondent Will Grant, it’s been overshadowed by two things: drug-related violence and - bizarrely - hairdos...


Life amid the ruins

Should ancient archaeological sites be carefully preserved, or actually lived in? Or overrun with visitors – but only if they arrive by tour bus with an all-inclusive ticket? 

In the settlement of Hampi in Karnataka state, once the centre of a huge Hindu empire, the question is very much an open one.  The central government of India has made its choice and sent in the bulldozers to evict squatters and tourist-traps. 

But local people trying to make a living aren't enthused by plans to 'smarten up' the site. Anthony Denselow’s been hearing from some of them - and began by getting a haircut.

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