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The NBA, with the help of several marketing partners, is searching for that Indian star. In December the league will dispatch a group of top executives to the subcontinent for its first Indian basketball summit. They will finalize initiatives like coaching clinics, refurbished neighborhood courts and youth- development camps. The...
(2 of 4) Diseases that have high profiles and vocal activists - such as aids, tuberculosis and malaria - attract far more interest and money from big donors and governments, based partly on the mistaken belief that they kill the most children. Celebrities don't host concerts to fight diarrhea. Of 29...
And this was consistent with what many (though not all) historians understand to be the larger pattern of Islamic conquest. Although treatment of "unbelievers"-notably those on the Indian subcontinent-could be brutal, ?People of the Book,? as Christians and Jews were known, often maintained their distinct religious communities. True...
A democracy of more than 1 billion people, many profiting from a reformed economy, India is turning itself into a primary player in the global marketplace. Readers welcomed the rise of a free society, although not without a few misgivings about the lingering effects of the caste system and corruption...
Hindu-Muslim animosity has had several flash points in India's history, starting with the Muslim Mughal conquest of the subcontinent in the 16th century?something India's nationalist Hindu opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is still attempting to undo with a campaign to demolish some Mughal mosques. That rift...