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...fastest growing developing nations, this weekend and arrive on Monday to start his busy week. India’s prime minister, Manmohan Singh, will kick off one of the week’s highlights, an academic symposium hosted by the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) in New Delhi. Graduates of all of Harvard’s schools, from 24 countries, will convene there on March 25 and 26—the first such gathering to take place in India, according to Longbrake. Summers will be part of a sizable delegation of University administrators, including deans of Harvard’s various...
India isn't relying on diplomacy to win the U.S. Congress's backing for the controversial nuclear cooperation pact announced by George W. Bush and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in New Delhi two weeks ago. It's playing the Washington game like the locals do--with lobbyists. Long before Bush's visit, India lined up two lobbying firms to sell the deal. The Indian embassy signed a $700,000 contract last fall with Barbour, Griffith & Rogers, an outfit led by Robert Blackwill, Bush's ambassador to India from 2001 to 2003. The embassy is also paying...
...strategic alliance between established western powers and India is beneficial for all parties involved. In addition to tempering surges in oil prices, the establishment of a rapport with New Delhi is vital to U.S. and European interests, as India stands as a hub of democracy in a region whose political landscape is tainted by Chinese communism and Islamic authoritarianism. For these reasons, leaders with diverse international outlooks, from Jacques Chirac of France to Nobel Peace Prize winner Mohammed El Baradei of International Atomic Energy Agency, are lining up in support of Bush’s proposal, acknowledging that...
...string of recent attacks? In August 2003, two bomb blasts in Bombay killed more than 50 people. In September 2004, around 30 people died in a gun attack on a temple in Gujarat. And last October, more than 60 were killed in a series of bomb blasts in Delhi. Another Indian intelligence officer who spoke to TIME linked Tuesday's bombings to amateurish attacks late last year in the tech towns of Hyderabad and Bangalore, and possibly the Delhi blasts too. In Hyderabad last October, a suicide bomber blew himself up 200 yards from the Andhra Pradesh state Chief Minister...
...Some argue, moreover, that India's leaders are showing the maturity that comes with the country's new position in the world. Brahma Chellaney, strategic studies professor at New Delhi's Centre for Policy Research, says that coming a few days after a state visit by U.S. President George W. Bush, the bombs were timed to "deflate the elation" in India at its simultaneous economic and geopolitical emergence. For the same reason, India's reaction was muted. "If you react strongly, you diminish your standing in the world," he said. "These people want to belittle India. For that reason, India...