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...what Indian financial and managerial acumen can achieve, given the right global opportunities. Perhaps. But nobody asks this: Would Mittal have been as successful if he had remained in India? Why do so many of our success stories - from conductor Zubin Mehta to economist Amartya Sen to author Salman Rushdie - live abroad? Is there something about the Indian environment that discourages achievement? Whenever globally successful businessmen have come back home, they have failed to replicate their international record. Even the Mittals are far more successful abroad than they are in India. Some of this has to do with the mind...
...Shalimar the Clown By Salman Rushdie 398 pages
...personally agree with the idea that we should learn a little bit of everything. But if we [as South Asians] need to know Chaucer and Beowulf, I wouldn’t feel so bad if my colleagues were also forced to learn about great South Asian writers like Salman Rushdie.”The issues brought up in the seminar were closely related to the recent South Asian Studies Initiative (SASI) bill passed two weeks ago by the Undergraduate Council. The bill called for more South Asian course offerings, visiting professors, and student involvement in the department.Many students offered suggestions...
...Obviously, it's been pretty cool to see that people are really interested in what you've written about, and think that you've written about it in an effective way. But then at the same time, I had the chance to meet Salman Rushdie, which was really a strange experience. He has the same agents that I have. I walked into the office in London and he was just kind of there. I was just, ha ha, you're not supposed to be here. It's not every day that you just see Salman Rushdie sitting around...
Hardcover Fiction 1. "Shalimar the Clown" Salman Rushdie 2. "Trouble with Poetry" Billy Collins 3. "Memories of my Melancholy Whores" Gabriel García Márquez 4. "On Beauty" Zadie Smith 5. "The Sea" John Banville 6. "Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits" Laila Lalami 7. "The Saint of Lost Things" Christopher Castellani 8. "Gilead" Marilynne Robinson 9. "New and Selected Poems" Volume 2 Mary Oliver 10. "Myth of You and Me" Leah Steward Hardcover Nonfiction 1. "Team of Rivals" Doris Kearns Goodwin 2. "Schooling America" Patricia Graham 3. "Moral Consequences of Economic Growth" Benjamin Friedman 4. "Year of Magical...