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...years, he has targeted India's smaller cities and towns, where the explosion of satellite television, with its constant diet of ads and Bollywood, has fueled the hairstyling market. "In Delhi, people will just come to my salon asking for a cut that suits them," he says. "In Aligarh, they'll come asking to look like [Bollywood superstar] Shah Rukh Khan." The approach chimes with the findings of The Dhoni Effect, a 2008 report from consultants Ernst & Young. Named after Indian cricket captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni, a small-town boy made great, the report found that India's provincial consumers...
...uloom, fearful that another leader like the Taliban's Mullah Omar might emerge in one of its neighbors. But the government has no problems opening immigration doors to foreign students who wish to study at the country's other great center of Islamic scholarship and revival - Aligarh Muslim University...
...Muslims and less powerful countries. Initial sympathy and support for the U.S., he says is waning. And this comes from individuals who say that Islamic militancy is unacceptable because their religion is based on peace. "Violence has no religion," says Professor Saud Alam Qasmi, Head of Religious Studies at Aligarh Muslim University. "If you kill one person you kill all humanity...
...native of Atlantic City, N.J., Dichter, 69, says he has always been interested in development issues. He studied Asian economics at Aligarh Muslim University in India, where the idea for TFTP took root. "I was affected by the poverty, the lack of technology and the contrast between rich and poor," he says. He went on to earn a master's degree at Clark University in Worcester, Mass., and a Ph.D. at Birbeck College in London. In the 1960s he worked in Washington as a U.S. Foreign Service officer for Asian countries. He went to Switzerland in 1970 to coordinate...
...truly diligent will find articles from the Ajmer-Merwara Law Journal, the Adelaide Law Journal, the Adelphia Law Journal, the Aligarh Law Journal, and the Allahabad Law Journal. I had expected Langdell to stock Law Reviews and Journals from colleges all over the world, but not from schools (are these schools?) I had never heard of--and those are only...