Word: yadav
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Throughout the lecture at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Yadav addressed the increasingly detrimental proliferation of “takfir”—which she translated loosely as an accusation that another has given up a belief in Islam and its tenets—and the exclusion of moderates among the country’s leadership...
...suppression of apostasy, or religious disaffiliation, with the growth of Orthodox politics in Yemen was the focus of a talk given yesterday by Stacey Philbrick Yadav, a visiting scholar at the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies...
...There’s little evidence from Yemen for a linear relationship for which a party as a whole becomes moderate through participation in competitive politics,” Yadav said, explaining why party competition hasn’t brought the country’s politics more to the center...
...Yadav is certainly lucky that he's heading Indian Railways during a period of tremendous growth in India. The company is minting money hauling freight for mines thanks to the massive demand for iron ore in China, to cite just one example. But you also have to be clever enough to cash in. Contracts with mining firms are now linked to the price of ore rather than "set in concrete like in the old socialist fashion," says Kumar. "You have to make the best use of the opportunities the global market throws up. Before, we were operating like some Mother...
...Force and one of the 18 million Indians riding a train on the day I met him in the air-conditioned carriage we shared. "There is still scope for improvement." Some policymakers would like to privatize the train system - though given India's political sensitivities that could take years. Yadav and Kumar argue that you don't need to sell India's railways, that things are improving even under government control. "Railways were in a denial mode, living on past glories from when we were a natural monopoly," Kumar says. "Now we have to compete...