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American cars in India
In the late 1950s, American car companies were pushed out of India by unfriendly trade and import policies, and the passion for American cars ebbed. It lingered longer in Bollywood, where superstars like Dharmendra sang paeans to the Chevrolet Impala and every hero roared onto the screen in some gleaming steel chariot designed in Michigan. But as the decades passed, that infatuation also faded, and Indian car companies began manufacturing smaller, more efficient automotive dreams for the masses.
Today the car market is decidedly larger and American companies Ford and General Motors (GM) are back, competing with a whole new batch of global car makers. After rough beginnings in the 1990s, American car companies are serious about India, and they are seriously growing as well. Ford and GM may be cutting costs and closing plants in the United States, but the plan for India is bigger and better without an end in sight.
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Adoption in India
A few decades ago, the adoption scene in India was inactive and one-sided at best. Raising children not born in the family was considered unacceptable by most Indians, and even though some Indians wanted to adopt, most orphaned children went abroad. But 1984 brought the country’s first adoption regulations, and by 1989 a quota system was introduced that required 25 percent of all orphaned children to be adopted within India. Since then, a social revolution has taken place, and more orphaned and abandoned children have a waiting list of parents who want to take them home.
According to the Central Adoption Resource Agency (CARA) 1,707 children were adopted in India last year. (This figure does not include agencies not registered with CARA, but with state governments for domestic adoptions only. Because of the large number of such agencies, CARA estimates the actual domestic figure is two to three times as high.) In addition, 1,021 children were cleared for foreign and non-resident Indian families to adopt.
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