Word: indianism
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...track the Booker over the last seven years, there has always been an Indian connection - whether it was Yann Martel writing a book based on an Indian story, or Indian authors being shortlisted...
...that what Adiga has done is pathbreaking is ridiculous. No doubt, he has written a great book and given us a character, Balram Halwai, that will stay with us. But as anyone in India who reads widely enough knows, he's not 'the first to go where no other Indian author has gone before' as reviews in the west have proclaimed...
...intern at an Indian fashion magazine, and messy toenails were not going to go with my new four-inch heels...
Over “humanitinis” of vermouth and ice, a panel of academics discussed Indian and Chinese development last night in the Barker Center as part of “20 Questions with Tarun Khanna,” an interdisciplinary lecture. Khanna, a professor at Harvard Business School, recently completed a book entitled “Billions of Entrepreneurs: How China and India Are Reshaping Their Futures—and Yours.” He discussed his research for about 20 minutes and then fielded questions from MIT economics professor Abhijit Banerjee, Boston University history professor Merle Goldman...
...India. These countries are crucial because each has an interest in Afghanistan’s future and many of them seek to control the country now, Rashid said. “Kabul has become the new Kashmir,” Rashid said, referring to the growing rivalry between Indian and Pakistani intelligence services in Afghanistan’s capital. Some audience members, including Kurt L. Sonntag, a Kennedy School national security fellow who has spent time in Afghanistan and Pakistan, disagreed with where Rashid placed blame for the Taliban’s rise. “Some of the premises...