Ahmedabad is one in a crop of young, elite private universities promising they can put Indian higher education on the map.

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The protagonist of “Perfect Days”, a new film by Wim Wenders, a German director, is a Japanese sanitary worker. Each day he rises before dawn to clean public toilets in Tokyo. His job of scrubbing ...