Word: akbar
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Monday, Oct. 31. “Come Back to Afghanistan: A Californian Teenager’s Story.” Hyder Akbar was a teen living in a suburb of San Francisco before his father became Afghan President Hamid Karzai’s top spokesman. 6:30 p.m. Harvard Book Store...
...point out that many countries have restrictions on foreigners entering their newspaper market?why shouldn't India? Then there's the claim that without the cap, illicit money could enter the local industry. "Would you want funds that have terrorist linkages to enter the media?" asks M.J. Akbar, one of India's most respected journalists and editor in chief of the Asian Age newspaper. Critics don't think much of that argument. Many feel that the real reason the cap stays at 26% is that India's powerful newspaper barons want it that way. "Entrenched monopoly newspaper houses have been...
...long term." In other words, even in one of the world's largest and most vibrant media markets, too many players may wind up chasing too few customers?and newspaper closures will be sure to follow. "People have come into newspapers thinking it's a casino," says Akbar. "It certainly isn't." If publications start cashing in their chips, perhaps the foreign investors now itching get into India will be glad that they weren't let in too fast...
...Indian to dissent, I have to point out that the book has its problems. Sen gives too much weight to historical anomalies and aberrations to make his case. He loves to cite the Mughal Emperor Akbar as an illustration of how open-minded and inquisitive Indian monarchs could be. Yet Akbar was a one-off?none of his successors was as ecumenical, and a few were outright bigots. The might of orthodoxy and narrow-mindedness in Indian history is greater than Sen allows it to be, while acquired Western political traditions probably play a greater part in creating contemporary Indian...
...promising jobs, improved health care, educational and professional opportunities and to let ?Iranians feel the effect of oil money on their dinner tables.? Now he has to deliver on those promises, which are similar to those made 26 years ago by old-guard revolutionaries such as former President Akbar Rafsanjani, whose failure to deliver may in large part explain why Rafsanjani lost the election to Ahmadinejad...