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Joker, Circus, Villain, but no hero?

October 15, 2010
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Sometimes, you can only get so much upset. It has now got to the point where it is getting so ridiculous that one can laugh, albeit with tears. Pakistan’s political and governance landscape presents the picture of a bad drama Read more »

Nitin Nohria – profile of an overseas Indian

October 6, 2010
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Nitin Nohria is the 10th and the current dean of Harvard Business School (HBS). He is the first foreign-born dean of Harvard Business School. Nitin was born in Nohar, Rajasthan, India. He graduated from St. Columba’s School in New Delhi, Read more »

What devoured glamorous Pakistan?

October 4, 2010
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From Express Buzz 

By Vir Sanghvi 
05 Sep 2010

I wrote, a few weeks ago, about how much the attitude to Indians had changed in the West. Once we were regarded as losers, people who inhabited a desperately poor country, continually ravaged by famine or drought, incapable of making a single world-class product, and condemned to live forever on foreign aid. Now, we have the world’s respect and, more tellingly, the West’s envy as more and more jobs are Bangalored away from their high-cost economies and handed over to Indians who perform much better for less money. Read more »

Gaddafi’s antics in Italy do no good to Muslim world’s image

August 31, 2010
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From Daily Mail, UK

By Nick Pisa
31st August 2010

A British actress was among 500 glamorous women invited to a ‘convert to Islam party’ thrown by Libyan leader Colonel Muammar Gaddafi yesterday.

Clio Evans, 28, was recruited via an agency along with hundreds of other women for the second day running as the leader called on them to embrace Islam while on an official visit to Italy.

It is the fourth time in less than a year that Gaddafi has hosted such an event and yesterday there was condemnation from politicians and the Church which hit out at claims three women had converted as ‘a stunt.’

Criticism: A group of 200 young women attended the meeting, many of them arranged through an Italian company Hostessweb

Criticism: A group of 200 young women attended the meeting, many of them arranged through an Italian company Hostessweb

 

Glamorous: A woman speaks to the media as she arrives for the conversion party at the Libyan Academy in Rome

Glamorous: A woman speaks to the media as she arrives for the conversion party at the Libyan Academy in Rome

 

'Spontaneous': One of three women who were said to have converted to Islam after attending the party hosted by Colonel Muammar Gaddafi

‘Spontaneous’: One of three women who were said to have converted to Islam after attending the party hosted by Colonel Muammar Gaddafi Read more »