Mar 22 2008
CHAK DE INDIA ! If you wanted proof that India will be the country to watch in this century look no further than what the Federal Reserve Bank of the US is doing these days. You may not believe it but it is doing exactly what the Indian...
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Mar 22 2008
ARE INDIANS PATRIOTIC? I had just settled down on my seat in the domestic flight from an airport in California to Washington D.C.–a 5 hour coast to coast flight– when the pilot announced on the P.A. system ’Welcome to this ...
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Mar 22 2008
KISSING IN INDIA I teach Public speaking occasionally. I am often asked for some tips to be a good speaker by those who wish to learn this craft but are unwilling to pay for it—a common trait . I give them a few tips but none I believe is as...
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Mar 22 2008
A HINDU , A MUSLIM AND A CHRISTIAN I was sitting in the Coffee shop at a Borders book store in downtown Washington DC when a middle aged man came up to me , asked my permission to sit at my table and introduced himself as a Pakistani, doing research...
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Mar 22 2008
RAJNIKANT, SHAHRUKH KHAN AND UNILEVER When Silva Leguada became Global brand Director for ‘Dove’ in 2001 she looked for a new approach. She was told what conventional wisdom held as sacrosanct ‘There was no way you can sell beauty without ...
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Mar 20 2008
TOWARDS UNDERSTANDING ISLAM Historian Toynbee wrote ‘The void created by the failure to communicate is soon filled with poison, drivel and misrepresentation’. He said this in another context but I believe this is very relevant now in the...
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