Hard graft
Financial Times June 12, 2008 Within the first couple weeks of arriving in India, I asked an Indian friend whether corruption was really as widespread as I had heard. To […]
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Flush with success
Financial Times May 16, 2008 Bindeshwar Pathak has devoted his life to an unusual cause. In 1970 he founded Sulabh a non-governmental organisation based in Delhi that builds clean toilets […]
Maoists have to heal a fractured Nepal
Financial Times April 16 2008 At the close of polls in Nepal last week, election workers at a voting station in Kathmandu’s picturesque Durbar Square burst into spontaneous applause. The […]
The Dalai Lama’s Embrace
Financial Times March 20, 2008 At the end of a two-hour press conference this week in northern India, the Dalai Lama amiably greeted the crowd of journalists before him. As he […]
Marriage at the click of a button
Financial Times March 18, 2008 The aftermath of the dotcom bubble in 2001 was a bad time to be launching an internet start-up, particularly one specialising in matrimonial listings for […]
India finds cheap energy may be an easy nut to crack
Financial Times March 10 2008 When police bring the traffic to an abrupt halt in Raipur, capital of the remote Indian state of Chhattisgarh, drivers know what to expect next. […]
A disciple of Japanese quality management
Financial Times January 28, 2008 Order and efficiency are hallmarks of the TVS motorbike factory near Bangalore in southern India. To direct foot traffic, arrows are painted on the shiny […]
Healthcare, powered commerce
Financial Times December 12, 2007 In the village of Dorogram, two hours’ drive from Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, Asia Begum sits on a chair in front of huts made of […]
Bangladesh weathers climate storms
Financial Times December 14, 2007 Dhaka –For generations Mohammed Alam Khokshabari and his forebears lived in a village near the mighty Jamuna River in Bangladesh. Each year this farmer from Sirajgonj […]
Two Worlds Collide
Financial Times REPORT – UNDERSTANDING GLOBAL PHILANTHROPY 2007 December 11, 2007 Financial Times The Naandi Foundation, based in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad, seems similar to the plethora of […]
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