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NRI Nukkar: March 2006
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Tuesday, March 28, 2006. Amartya Sen, Sugata Bose and Tarun Khanna; three vastly respected Indians. They’re going to be part of the faculty teaching a new subject at Harvard: India. Yup, our great juggernaut of a democracy has made it to the subject list of this most august of American institutions, where the usual clichés of ‘hallowed halls of learning’ were probably invented. So what are they going to study, I wonder? Will they delve into the great divide between the rich and poor here? 6th Grade histo...
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NRI Nukkar: January 2006
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Monday, January 23, 2006. Villages and Dollars: The Indian Trip. Woah Didn’t intend for that to get so involved, but hey, it’s what happened. But, really, it is quite a community, isn’t it? 30 million and growing, they tell us. Makes me think: our country’s gone from jewel in the Imperial crown to mystic eastern retreat to back office of the world to this billion-strong juggernaut that seems to operate purely on bumblebee physics. What a trip. Where next? Posted by Nimish at 8:36 PM. Send Money to India.
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NRI Nukkar: April 2006
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Wednesday, April 26, 2006. Copy cat Copy cat. Ooops I wrote about NRI Kaavya Vishwanathan not too long ago you remember, her book How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a Life landed like a big round pebble in the still waters of US publishing, getting a cool half-mil as an advance. Well, the lassie has just been caught for, for plagiarism! Pause for effect; add some nice diminished chords if you will.). You know that mag Cosmopolitan, right? The women’s mag that men are reading all the time? The I...
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NRI Nukkar: February 2006
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Sunday, February 26, 2006. A recent international poll by marketing company GMI has this to report:. Britons: polite and well-educated, but terribly boring. French: never mind the wine, these guys are the rudest people on the planet. Americans: the most ignorant, and the most ambitious. Wonder what it had to say about Indians. What are we really? Are we perceived as hardworking, but lacking initiative? Are we smart but un-ambitious? Are we clannish, and close-minded or gregarious and open? Laugh And the ...