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Dalai Lama to speak on 'art of happiness' in New Delhi

The Dalai Lama will speak on 'the art of happiness' at the fifth edition of the annual Penguin Lecture in New Delhi on Saturday. The previous speakers at the prestigious event have been journalist......

The India we cannot ignore

For most self-exiled Indians in America, like me, the image of the 'new India' has been a comforting presence. The eight per cent growth, the city of Bangalore, the impending US-India nuclear......

What do Goans THiNK of Tarun Tejpal?

The change of government in Goa changed THiNK’s character. Literary or intellectual luminaries were replaced by big-ticket celebrities, says Sunil Sethi In the furore over Tarun......

What Indian media can learn from US elections

Perhaps one aspect of the way modern media particularly print and news television works need some soul-searching: Their tendency to “frame” news stories as a conflict between two......

Indian to head Monterey policy institute

An expert in international and development economics has been appointed president of the prestigious California-based Monterey Institute of International Studies. As president of the institute,......

Indian economy is like a super highway, says Friedman

Comparing the Indian economy to a super highway, noted economist Thomas Friedman has said he is optimistic about the growth potential of the country, which remains a true democracy. Friedman, also......

US, 'huge beneficiary' of BPO: Friedman

Notwithstanding the recent uproar over the UK data theft, a well-known US author has said that America is a huge beneficiary of outsourcing. "The issue of outsourcing is easy to demonise but what......

Globalisation is making way for 'slowbalisation': Birla

'While the march of globalisation is perhaps inevitable, what is certain is that the world is no longer flat as, the emerging pattern of trade is more regional. 'This new trend of......

When Aiyar upstaged Friedman

It was an evening when Union Minister for Petroleum Mani Shankar Aiyar stole the show from three-time Pulitzer Prize winner and The New York Times columnist Thomas L Friedman, and how! The event......

Paul Krugman: Economist, columnist, Nobel laureate

Paul Krugman is perhaps most widely known as a columnist in The New York Times. On the day that he was awarded the Nobel prize in economics for 2008, his column sharply criticised the Bush......

007 will come early to India

Once upon a time, long, long ago, decades before Thomas Friedman wrote the The World Is Flat, only the choicest Hollywood's hits trickled into the Indian subcontinent, usually months after the......

If a film's set in India, you'll spot a cow!

I don't know if it's sacred, but it's a cow alright. I call the game cow-spotting. These days, if it's a film set in India, sooner or later you'll find the cow. Cows holding up traffic are......

Brother Bear, an idealistic quest

Though not as entertaining, inventive or colourful as some of the recent Disney animated films like Lilo & Stitch, Brother Bear has ample attraction for children between four and ten years, as seen......

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