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A Profile In Courage

A recipient of the Sitara-i-Imtiaz Award in Pakistan and the Ramon Magsaysay Award, Asia’s most prestigious human rights honour, she declined an offered post as the first female judge on the Pakistan Supreme Court, stating she thought she could effe

An Interview with Avnish Bajaj

Bajaj teamed up with fellow Harvard graduate Suvir Sujan to found baazee.com in 2000, now owned by eBay

An Interview with Shashi Tharoor

'We do have, at the moment, a credible field of qualified Asians and I think the world is looking to Asia to produce the next Secretary-General.'

Dreaming of an Indian Renaissance

In an era of unprecedented upheaval and transformation in India, one young man is making waves with his vision for the future called Dreaming Of An Indian Awakening (DIA) through which he aims to usher in an appreciation of India’s rich cultural her

Emerging City of the World

The wealth and opulence of Abu Dhabi is probably the very first thing that will strike you as you enter this gleaming city. Its uglier side will take some more time before it reveals itself to you, provided you look hard enough.

Seoul Searching

Having ushered in turbulent economic prosperity without much ado, South Koreans are conscious of the fact that they are held out as an example to the developing nations

The Untruth of an Indian Majority

No one in India is part of a majority when the classifications of ethnicity, language and religion are all applied simultaneously. Arguably, people in India identify more with ethnicity than religion

Merve Kavakci: No to Secular Fundamentalism

In a country with such strong notions of secularism, the headscarf is viewed by many as a symbol of political Islam and a threat to the secular credentials of the republic

Rational Exuberance: Indians Invest Big In The Gulf

The loser seems to be India. Whereas NRI’s for all these years remitted their money back home, they are now increasingly happier ploughing their hard-earned dirhams or dinars back into their host countries

Are We The Most Racist Of Them All?

We’re so racist that we have the heaviest biases within our tiniest microcosms. Even within our own race and our own country, we’re so fond of discriminating based on community or colour of skin

Urban India -- The NRI Viewpoint

Perhaps this wave of westernization and erosion of culture and values is limited to a few, a solitary blond hair follicle in a jet black mane?

Rakesh Mani

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