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...Bombay hospital bed, drifting in and out of consciousness, Tejas Pathak looked up and beheld India's turbaned Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh, who had tears in his eyes as he saw what the explosives had done to human flesh all around the room. "Get well soon," Singh told him. "God bless you." The 29-year-old stockbroker, badly wounded in the head and face, reportedly responded by congratulating Singh on his economic reforms...
Whether Bombay's entrepreneurial energy can be directed toward lifting more of its people out of despair will help define the nation's future. The country's pro-growth Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh, has said he dreams that Bombay will someday make people "forget Shanghai"--China's financial capital, whose modern gleam is a reminder of the gap between India and its eastern rival. Right now it's not much of a contest. India's GDP (gross domestic product) growth was 8.4% last year vs. 10% for China, while foreign investment in India was an estimated $8.4 billion, compared with...
...Beteille is one of two members of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's so-called Knowledge commission who publicly resigned their posts this week over the quota issue. "It is often said that caste is a reality in India," wrote Pratap Bhanu Mehta, in an incendiary open letter of resignation printed in the Indian Express. "I couldn't agree more. But your government is in the process of making caste the only reality in India...
...police he was tired of being ignored by his powerful sibling; in Bombay. After the BJP's surprise defeat in the 2004 general elections, Mahajan was seen as the great hope to revive the party; his death leaves India's struggling opposition in further disarray. Mahajan, said Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, was "a charismatic and youthful leader, full of promise and energy." Pravin has been charged with murder and is awaiting trial...
...weekend brought one of the trip’s highlights, an academic symposium hosted by the Harvard Alumni Association in New Delhi—the first such gathering to take place in India, according to the University.The symposium, which was kicked off by India’s prime minister, Manmohan Singh, featured an assortment of Harvard professors including Lamont University Professor Amartya K. Sen.One of the speakers at the symposium, Tarun Khanna, Lemann professor at Harvard Business School, wrote in an e-mail that the event successfully reached out to alumni “by giving a flavor of diversity...