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...greatly moved by Pico Iyer's essay "The Paradise Within," in which he answers a question pertinent to our times: Where is paradise? We all seek betterment and the perfect paradise that we envision for ourselves. Toward that end, we are a few steps closer today to the paradise that we craved for yesterday. And as Iyer rightly points out, quoting the Zen temple sign, it's right beneath our feet. Saritha Rao Chennai, India...
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...Family Sonia Gandhi and her son, Rahul, are only the latest activists in the dynasty that has dominated the politics of India for more than 50 years [ASIA, May 24]. In 1984, after Indira Gandhi's assassination, Pico Iyer described the family's monarchical succession...
...matching writer with subject. We turned first to our own staff and contributors. Cairo bureau chief Scott MacLeod, for example, wrote about the men behind the al-Jazeera network, Andrew Sullivan handled George W. Bush and Arnold Schwarzenegger, Moscow bureau chief Paul Quinn-Judge critiqued Vladimir Putin, Pico Iyer made the case for the Dalai Lama, and Belinda Luscombe interviewed Nicole Kidman. Many of the profiles, however, were written by people who are not journalists but who have special insights into our selections. In two cases our writers--Warren Buffett on Bill Gates and Bono on Burmese dissident Aung...
...theirs. Long after his instant charisma is forgotten, he will be remembered as one who ensured a safe future for his culture outside Tibet and gave the rest of us an alternative home in what was once a very distant set of beliefs. --By PICO IYER, author of Sun After Dark