At a dinner for the World Trade Organisation’s Director General Pascal Lamy, who was on a two-day visit to India, bureaucrats, academics, economists and journalists quizzed him on the stalled Doha round of trade negotiations. From the welter of suggestions came a quirky opinion from Ajit Ranade, chief economist, Aditya Birla Group. Ranade parodied the Kabir doha “Kal kare so aaj kar, aaj kare so ab...” into “aaj kare so kal kar, kal kare so parso; Itni bhi kya jaldi hai jab rehna hai barso” to describe the Doha talks that have been on for the past 10 years.
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