Asia is divided by an efficiency line that separates the users and non-users of time.


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</p><p class='TableClas'>At one level of judgment, for sure, it was a meaningless obsession with the value of punctuality. At another and perhaps more important level, it revealed an utmost concern for the value of time. There

Barun Roy: The time divide

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