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...husband's presidency and those who would like to see a woman in the White House; McCain comes off as brave and decent; and in Barack Obama, a biracial son of an immigrant, millions see themselves. "Educated, international-minded Indians get a huge thrill out of Obama," says Shashi Tharoor, a former high-ranking U.N. diplomat and an author and columnist. "He is much more 'one of us' than any previous presidential contender ... An Obama victory would fulfill everything the rest of the world has been told America could be, but hasn't quite been...
...then, do so many Indian-Americans support him? After all, Indians voted for Kerry over Bush in the 2004 election by a four-to-one ratio, and are overwhelmingly registered as Democrats. Jindal, however, is all business and no bleeding heart. As Times of India columnist Shashi Tharoor writes in his scathing piece “Should We Be Proud of Bobby Jindal?” “Many Indians born in America have tended to sympathize with other people of color, identifying their lot with other immigrants, the poor, the underclass… None of this for Bobby...
...Bangladeshi economist Muhammad Yunus began making tiny loans to the rural poor. The success of his charity led him to found Grameen Bank, pioneering microcredit. Yunus spoke to TIME's Ishaan Tharoor last week, moments before learning he and Grameen had won the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize...
Other contenders for the position include the U.N. Under-Secretary-General for Public Information Shashi Tharoor and a candidate from Sri Lanka...
...good part of Nehru's India, Tharoor notes, is gone already. Socialism is being slowly dismantled. The result has been a rapid acceleration in growth and prosperity-ammunition for those who would like to dismiss Nehru's legacy altogether. But religious fundamentalists have also launched an attack on two other Nehruvian institutions-religious tolerance and pluralist democracy-that have repeatedly demonstrated their value in holding India together. As Tharoor writes, "India's challenge today is both to depart from [Nehru's] legacy and to build...