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...diaspora has spread beyond Silicon Valley. Indian-born executives have in recent years taken the reins at some of the world's biggest companies. Arun Sarin, a native of Madhya Pradesh in central India, is CEO of Britain's Vodafone. Three months ago, Indra Nooyi was named CEO of PepsiCo after serving five years as the U.S. beverage giant's CFO. Indians have credibility as managers, says Hemant Luthra, head of the Systems & Automotive Technologies division at Indian car-and-tractor manufacturer Mahindra & Mahindra. This was not always so. Luthra remembers visiting Hong Kong in 1991 when India's government...
...channels and the glut of statistics flashed on the screen during sports events.) In a way, foreign films are back where they were 60 years ago. They are patronized by a small coterie of educated Americans, and by a significant slice of first- and second-generation foreigners: the Indian diaspora that still loves its Bollywood musicals...
...Lost Daughter of Happiness) whose stories inspired director Joan Chen's 1998 art-house hit Xiu Xiu: The Sent-Down Girl. Yan emigrated to the U.S. after the 1989 Beijing crackdown and now lives in San Francisco, where she is a leading figure in China's post-Tiananmen literary diaspora. Others include best-selling novelists like Ha Jin (Waiting) and Ma Jian (Red Dust), as well as newcomers such as Da Chen (whose Brothers came out in September). Like many of the American writers who decamped to Europe in the last century, these transplants write largely about their homeland...
Laurence Henry Tribe was born on Oct. 10, 1941 in Shanghai, China to parents George and Polia, members of the Eastern European Jewish diaspora that populated parts of eastern China...
...renowned scholar on the African diaspora attributed the timelessness of Jimi Hendrix’s music to his ability to resonate with multi-generational audiences in a lecture held in the Barker Center yesterday. As “an endless improvisor of tradition,” Hendrix was “prepared to lose his identity to find it,” Giddens Professor in Social Theory at the London School of Economics Paul Gilroy said of the cultural icon and his creativity. Hendrix’s innovation is largely responsible for the timelessness of his music, Gilroy said. Following...