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Stroll through the Greenhouse Café this month, and you may notice something missing. You can still get California-style tacos, Sicilian pizza, or an All-American burger, but if it’s Indian food you’re after, you can just forget...
...Indeed, the Indians I met who were old enough to remember President Kennedy spoke of him fondly and frequently commented on “how good a man” President Bush was. That positive opinion extends to the nation as a whole: A 2008 Pew Research Survey found that 66 percent of Indians hold a favorable view of the United States, a statistic significantly higher than in almost any other country, including Japan (50 percent), Spain (33 percent), and Turkey (12 percent). Indians admire American leaders that reach out to them and treat them as equal partners, as President...
...Political leaders might be the American faces that Indians see on the news, but just as important is the corporate face that they see in their business interactions with the United States. A prime example of this is the growing attraction of Indian consumers to American supermarkets. Consumers are now being introduced to stores where they can purchase a wide variety of groceries; for those Indians who still purchase food daily from street vendors, the cleanliness and organization of large grocery operations is extremely appealing. As a few American stores start making inroads in the Indian economy, employing Indians...
...Indian views of America are not uniformly positive, of course. Many Indians are skeptical of American prodding on issues such as climate change and relations with Pakistan. They also fault the American market for the crash that brought down the global economy with it. Yet, as a whole, the people admire and respect a country that, more often than not, treats them as an equal partner, introduces new business models and economic ideas to their country, and sets a model for tolerance and diversity. As we work to rebuild our bonds with the rest of the world, these lessons...
...careful scientific analysis and scrutiny will take years, probably decades. But it would be worth the wait. Scholars aren't even sure how this enigmatic civilization disappeared. Was it eradicated by conquest or washed away by floods, or did its people just blend into other migrations settling the Indian subcontinent? Although Harappan cities were vast - Mohenjo-daro could have been populated by as many as 50,000 people, a staggering figure for such deep antiquity - they have left behind few towering monuments or epic ruins. Instead, we have clues in miniature, a copper figurine of a mercurial dancing girl...