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...ornate enameled Turkish coffee set. There's a huge showcase full of vases, dishes and stemware commissioned by personages ranging from Emperor Mutsuhito of Japan to Jazz Age entertainer Josephine Baker. In one room, a giant candelabra ordered by Czar Nicholas II stands next to chairs designed for Indian maharajas. Another features a surreal canopy (pictured) painted by French artist Gérard Garouste, inspired by the symbols of alchemy: air, water, earth and fire. Throughout the museum, Starck contrasts the sumptuous and the simple. In the tableware showroom, for instance, bare concrete walls surround a 13-m-long display...
...growth for India's tech sector. As is the case with many Bangalore-based businessmen, Rao flies to America several times a year, and all of his clients are abroad. In most other countries, this would mean a few simple phone calls to travel agents, but a budding Indian tycoon faces special problems. "If I want to get on a flight to San Francisco tomorrow or even later this week, I won't be able to do it," Rao says. Bureaucratic delays have stalled the construction of a modern international terminal in Bangalore, and the few overseas flights that leave...
...take his employees home at night, which adds another 3% to 5% to his annual expenses. And India's electrical grid is so unreliable that most manufacturing companies have to produce their own power by purchasing generators and the fuel to run them. The cost of electricity for Indian tech companies is twice as high as it is for their Thai or Indonesian counterparts. "Over a period, we are eroding our competitive advantage," says Raman Roy, managing director of Wipro Spectramind, one of India's leading call-center operators...
...This month, the Bhutanese army went into battle for the first time, attacking 30 camps inside the country's southern border occupied by 3,000 separatist guerrillas from the Indian state of Assam. Simultaneously, the Indian army sealed its side of the frontier. (Some rebels also help smuggle weapons and people from China and Southeast Asia to insurgencies in the region.) By late last week, 92 guerrillas and 37 Bhutanese soldiers were reported killed in clashes, and hundreds of guerrillas, including some senior leaders, had been captured. Bhutan is apparently preparing for a sustained campaign. The King's 19-year...
...addition to Gomes and Mansfield, Professor of Comparative Religion and Indian Studies Diana L. Eck spoke about what she called a “crisis in the humanities...