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  "path": "/2026/03/12/the-third-world-second-hand-modernity/",
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  "site": "https://dissentwatch.com",
  "tags": [
    "#Column3",
    "corruption",
    "culture",
    "development",
    "Education",
    "institutions",
    "Jayant Bhandari",
    "law",
    "legitimacy",
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  "textContent": "2,310 words A society can become technologically modern while remaining intellectually pre-modern. Satellites may be launched into space while superstition governs everyday decisions. The result is not progress but instability—a condition that can be described as second-hand modernity. How can a society produce seemingly world-class engineers and nuclear scientists while remaining deeply irrational? How can […]",
  "title": "The Third World: Second-Hand Modernity"
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