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Quo Vadis, Pakistan
by: Atanu Dey | | Pakistan matters critically to India. One could dismiss it as a failed tin-pot dictatorship and is of little consequence with respect to India?s development and economic growth. But it is just because it is a tin-pot dictatorship that it matters. Even more precisely, it has been made into a tin-pot dictatorship so that it can serve as a lever ...... | |
China's American debt as a hedge for Taiwan
by: Vikrum Sequeira | | Yesterday I went to a talk at St. Edward's University about Asia and the international financial system. The speakers included Jennifer Amyx, professor of political science at the University of Pennsylvania, Harry Harding, professor of political science at George Washington University, Hugh Patrick, an economist who focuses on Asia, and a few ...... | |
Bowling for big bucks
by: Jason Overdorf | | By today's sports logic, cricket should be dead. In its purest form, the game takes five days to play. Its upper lip remains so stiff that a batsman who declares himself out when the umpire blows the call gets cheers instead of boos. Its heroes aren't giants, either of height or girth. Some players, like Australian spin bowler Shane Warne, look ...... | |
Outsourcing goes upscale
by: Jason Overdorf | | Sept. 10, 2007 issue - The infamous "race to the bottom" may not be over. But increasingly, service industries are moving operations not to nations at the bottom?which is to say, nations like India, where labor is cheapest?but to where the work will be done best. The new race is to find the most-competitive service. And it speaks volumes about ...... | |
Bollywood: a primer
by: Jason Overdorf | | Sept. 2, 2007 - In its heyday from the 1950s through the 1980s, Bollywood produced dozens of beloved films. These classics made superstars out of actors like Dev Anand, Dilip Kumar, Raj Kapoor, Rajesh Khanna, Hema Malini, Zeenat Aman, Rekha and Amitabh Bachchan?a hero so well-loved the nation came to a standstill when an on-set injury in 1982 ...... | |
Bollywood takes on hollywood
by: Jason Overdorf | | Sept. 10, 2007 issue - Ronnie Screwvala is the front runner in the race to become Bollywood's Jack Warner?the man who began the transformation of parochial U.S. cinema into its modern global form. Yet Screwvala is rarely picked out of a crowd in India, let alone in the United States. But Hollywood insiders know him well, for producing the "The ...... | |
Do-it-yourself Education
by: Jason Overdorf | | Aug. 20-27, 2007 issue - In India, education is supposed to be free and universal through age 14. In fact, it often doesn't work out that way. Consider Dhiraj Sharma, the 10-year-old son of a bicycle rickshaw driver in Dehli, who was forced to stay home last year after the local state denied him admission because he didn't have the right ...... | |
Money shortage
by: Jason Overdorf | | American Treasury Secretary John Snow was in New Delhi two weeks ago, calling for India to speed up the liberalization of its financial-services sector. He argued that looser rules for foreign investment in banks, insurance companies and pension funds would hasten India's economic rise, "add capital to the banking sys-tem, spread credit ...... | |
Shrinking flocks of vultures spoil ancient culture's funeral rituals
by: Jason Overdorf | | MUMBAI -- Smack in the middle of the thicket of ultramodern high-rises that make up Malabar Hill, one of Mumbai's most exclusive neighbourhoods, followers of an ancient religion are fighting to preserve funeral rites that go back thousands of years.
The Parsis -- so called because their ancestors immigrated from Fars, or Persepolis, in Iran ...... | |
Real estate: remaking mumbai
by: Jason Overdorf | | The latest quiet reform undertaken by India's government deals with one of its oldest problems?land reform. Across the country, thousands of acres of land are tied up in disputes over decrepit edifices. But last week, a landmark Supreme Court judgment removed restrictions on the sale of land owned by Mumbai's defunct textile mills, freeing up ...... | |
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