Word: ishaan
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...Bravo to Howard Chua-Eoan and Ishaan Tharoor for an excellent piece. They clearly have an understanding of the Filipino psyche. TIME should have featured Manny on the cover of all the issues like the Asian edition. Manny Pacquiao epitomizes the Filipino spirit and nature, namely the qualities of determination, resilience, simplicity, humility, generosity, love for family and faith in God. With the quote "Di ako bobo" (I'm not stupid!), I salute Manny for not succumbing to the national inferiority complex that came with the colonial spirit. And as a Filipino expatriate, I salute my countryman for being...
Border Conflict I read with interest Ishaan Tharoor's story [Aug. 31]. It is clear that a major conflict between India and communist China would pose a very serious global threat. Yet I share his view that the long-term survival of India as a multicultural nation is more securely assured than that of communist China. Like all totalitarian states, China has decided to ensure the power of the central state by eradicating all local cultures and languages. A vast country such as India, with ancient traditions, many languages and several religions, has to tread a narrow path between...
Overlooked History Like many articles about the history of the U.S., Ishaan Tharoor's piece about the writer Washington Irving's setting for his stories in the Hudson Valley makes it sound like Native Americans never existed [Nov. 3]. Why is it that the media so often neglect them as if they were not humans, and imply instead that the Europeans were the first to walk and talk in America? Just because the Indians did not write with Latin letters does not mean they should be omitted from the record. Douglas Eivind Hall, FUENGIROLA, SPAIN...
...With reporting by Ishaan Tharoor/Macau
...Bangladeshi economist Muhammad Yunus began making tiny loans to the rural poor. The success of his charity led him to found Grameen Bank, pioneering microcredit. Yunus spoke to TIME's Ishaan Tharoor last week, moments before learning he and Grameen had won the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize...
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