Has the NRI fallen from grace?
By Swapan Dasgupta The average NRI’s fall from grace in India has been precipitate. The vacuous condescension that marked earlier attitudes has been replaced by desperation to find some accommodation somewhere. The big NRI players have no problem — they have seen their social worth in the West keep pace with India’s soaring reputation as [...]
Madrassa reform key
By Douglas M. Johnston No one doubts that the key to impacting the hearts and minds of Pakistan’s rising generation of leaders starts with educational reforms in the grade schools and high schools. However, all U.S. assistance currently is going toward improvement of the secular schools and not to Pakistan’s 20,000 madrassas, i.e. religious schools, [...]
Health Reform and Obama’s Leadership
By RAHUL PARIKH By all accounts this is crunch time for President Obama on health care reform, and things couldn’t be more tenuous. In the past several weeks, we’ve seen unified Republican opposition to his ideas, a revolt against reform from leaders inside his own political party, and the head of the non-partisan Congressional Budget [...]