A recent article in the New York Times about India’s Right to Information law made me incredibly happy, because the power of this law demonstrates how law can be used to empower poor and marginalized parts of the population. Law is often vilified. By Americans, but also around the world. The common cartoon of a…
I wanted to briefly post these two talks, which I absolutely absolutely loved recently. 1. Shashi Tharoor, on India’s “soft power” Click here to watch it (unfortunately TED won’t let me embed it for some strange reason). Shashi Tharoor was elected to India’s parliament in May 2009, representing Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala as minister for external affairs….
A couple of days back, I was on a plane from London to the U.S. and I had the opportunity to sit back, relax, and watch movies. I ended up watching the Kiera Knightley flick, The Duchess – and I was definitely not expecting what I saw. If you haven’t seen the movie, it’s a…
Recently, I’ve been reading a really great book — In Spite of the Gods: The Strange Rise of Modern India, by Edward Luce. I was born in India but moved to the U.S. at a young age – and yet, I recently felt that I didn’t know enough about my birthplace’s political scene. So I…