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...Among them is Vivek Iyer, a 26-year-old dairy technician prepping for his GMAT exam. "If you're talking of business today, India is the place to be," he says, smiling. "But the challenge for the country is to take everyone along." And with that, Iyer picks up his duffel bag and helmet, and sets out on his scooter for Badarpur, a village on the outskirts of New Delhi where he gives free math and science lessons to secondary school students from economically challenged families...
...common in fashionable urban spots like Nehru Place to hear people airing concerns about the growing distance between India's very rich and very poor. But Iyer is doing something about it. He is one of over 55,000 volunteers from India's five biggest cities who have signed up for Teach India, an initiative backed by the Times of India and the UN Volunteers working to spread literacy, and more importantly, quality education. In the first leg of the program - the biggest of its kind in India and possibly the world - 3,000 volunteers have already started teaching...
...road certainly did not begin easily. In the first round of qualifying singles, Ko faced Duke’s Tara Iyer, ranked No. 60 in the nation...
...ranked No. 84 nationally, fell 6-1, 6-0 to Iyer, who was playing so well that she went on to win two more matches and qualify for the tournament’s main draw...
...Beijing's Obstacle Course In "The Olympic Challenge," Pico Iyer insinuates that the world will regret awarding China the 2008 Olympics as it did with the 1936 Games in Berlin [Aug. 4]. Why even mention that established architect Albert Speer, the son of Hitler's architect, contributed to the design of the event? China is not without indiscretions, but to equate the country with the Nazi regime is reprehensibly unjust. Winston Wang, PRINCETON...