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...anthropologist's affair: 5,000 years of sea and caravan trading with Arabia, Greece and Rome. "Plenty of rubies, plenty of emeralds! You should thank God for having brought you to so rich a country!" Vasco da Gama was told when he sailed into Calcutta in 1497. Most Indian mines were exhausted by the late 19th century, but the gems kept coming. And whether they were commoners buying "1-g bangles" or royals commissioning turban ornaments, Indians were always mad for jewelry...
...Mahal Palace Hotel in Bombay. Her work for the family's ambitious restoration of Hyderabad's Chowmahalla Palace as a museum is much admired, and nobles hope the family will be allowed to display permanently the Nizam's fabled jewel collection, which was acquired by the Indian government...
...jewelry?" she says, smiling. "They copy." How to describe the chaos?with monkeys swinging in and out of dilapidated, baroque façades, sugarcane presses spewing smoke, and dozens of men (there are very few women in sight) pursuing De Taillac. "Hallooo, halloo. You buy emeralds. You want Indian rubies?" they cry, tugging at her clothes, and when she stops to look over a handful of lemon quartz, she causes a traffic...
...from New York who posed with a fistful of feathers to audience laughter, said he identifies more with his tribe than he does with the Native American label. “The idea of Native Americans is something very modern,” he said. “Each Indian tribe has its own traditions and customs and different languages.” After munching on chips and burritos from Felipe’s Taqueria, the event culminated in group dances and games. “This is a good opportunity to speak about what each of our tribe...
...South Asia, and particularly India,” said Siddhartha Sinha ’07, co-director of the Harvard College Asia Business Forum (HCABF), HPAIR’s newer business arm. He said that having the forum in India would allow delegates to understand the unique challenges that Indian businesses face and consider how India’s growing economy and affluence will play out on the international stage. The forum in Mumbai will feature six different panels—entrepreneurship, brand building, pharmaceuticals, outsourcing, foreign direct investment, elite education and the competition for talent—and will...