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Dr. Shashi Tharoor
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Dr. Shashi Tharoor is Chairman of Afras Ventures, a prize-winning author of ten books, and a widely-published critic, commentator and columnist (including for The Hindu, The Times of India and Newsweek). In 2007 he concluded a nearly 29-year career with the United Nations, culminating as the Under-Secretary-General for Communications and Public Information. For more information, please visit www.shashitharoor.com. Chairman of Afras Ventures and former Under-Secretary-General for the UN |
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 An interesting Web site, Mutiny, bills itself as "India's thought terminus." Edited by a New York-based banker and with contributions from members of the Indian diaspora around the world, as well as a solid nucleus of bright young Indian professionals, it is one of India's most popular non-news Web sites and doesn't have a matrimonial page! |
Dr. Shashi Tharoor
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Dr. Shashi Tharoor is Chairman of Afras Ventures, a prize-winning author of ten books, and a widely-published critic, commentator and columnist (including for The Hindu, The Times of India and Newsweek). In 2007 he concluded a nearly 29-year career with the United Nations, culminating as the Under-Secretary-General for Communications and Public Information. For more information, please visit www.shashitharoor.com. Chairman of Afras Ventures and former Under-Secretary-General for the UN |
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Indipepal is India’s first and only Web site devoted to Indian politics. The upcoming elections are a milestone in India and Indipepal is a great place to follow them. The site has commentary from across the Indian political spectrum and a daily summary of the top political developments. |
Dr. Shashi Tharoor
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Dr. Shashi Tharoor is Chairman of Afras Ventures, a prize-winning author of ten books, and a widely-published critic, commentator and columnist (including for The Hindu, The Times of India and Newsweek). In 2007 he concluded a nearly 29-year career with the United Nations, culminating as the Under-Secretary-General for Communications and Public Information. For more information, please visit www.shashitharoor.com. Chairman of Afras Ventures and former Under-Secretary-General for the UN |
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Exuberant, exciting, gaudy and gritty in a way that can only be called Dickensian, Slumdog Millionaire brings contemporary Mumbai to life from the seamy side up, with brio, compassion and all-round cinematic excellence. For the first time since Gandhi, there's genuine Oscar buzz around a movie set in India, with Indian characters, Indian actors and Indian themes. Though its depiction of Indian poverty and slum life is searingly real, slum life is depicted with integrity and dignity, and with a joie de vivre that transcends its setting. Danny Boyle's film is the work of an artist at the peak of his powers. India is his palette and Mumbai—that teeming 'maximum city', with 19 million strivers on the make, jostling, scheming, struggling and killing for success—is his brush. It will stay in the mind's eye a long time. |
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