Newsletters: Institute of Current World Affairs

Postcard from the Pink City III: Personal Connections and Political Dynamics
Winter, 2004-2005.
EAST PATEL NAGAR, New Delhi, India (en route to Jaipur) - A sharp sensation shot down my left arm. Had the feeling been any more intense I would have described it as pain.

No Theatre props Please: Rattling Real Sabers on India's Political Stage
Winter, 2004-2005.
LANDOUR CANTONMENT, Uttaranchal, India - In recent years the symbolism of swords has played prominently in Indian national media and in local politics.

Indo-American Relations in the Digital Age - Part III: Out-Sourcery?: Coming Challenges in Global Business, Public Policy and Moral Reasoning.
Winter, 2004-2005.
NEW RAJENDER NAGAR, New Delhi, India-I spent some weeks last October watching the American presidential campaign on Indian television.

Indo-American Relations in the Digital Age - Part II: The Costs of Intimacy: AMerican Electoral Cycles, Indo-U.S. Relations and the Business-Process Outsourcing Revolution in India
Winter, 2004-2005.
The link between America's 21st-century information-technology boom and India is increasingly tight.

Indo-American Relations in the Digital Age - Part I: Mutual Dependence: American Electoral Cycles and the Business-Process Outsourcing Revolution in India
Winter, 2004-2005.
LANDOUR CANTONMENT, Uttaranchal, India- Clad in kurta shirts and Nehru vests made of handspun khadi cloth, white Gandhi topis perched clownishly atop their heads, George W. Bush and John Kerry grinned impishly out at their Indian audience.

Postcard from the Pink City II: Personal Connections and Political Histories
Winter, 2004-2005.
Landour Cantonment, Uttaranchal, India-Today Kanota Bagh is the site of the Narain Niwas Hotel where I spend much of my time in Jaipur, as it is a crossroads for businesspersons, politicians and historians from around India and abroad.

Postcard from the Pink City I: Personal Connections, Rajput Society and Jaipur's Appeal.
Summer, 2004.
LANDOUR CANTONMENT, Uttaranchal, India-Standing before Jaipur's famous temple devoted to the elephant god Ganesh, I considered what to do with the sweets now nestling in a neatly torn page of the Patrika, Rajasthan's major Hindi-language newspaper.

To Jaipur and Beyond: Personal and Political Reflections on a Return to India.
Summer, 2004.
LANDOUR CANTONMENT, Uttaranchal, India -Standing on the snowy driveway amid the packaged reminders of my worldly possessions, I felt at once invigorated and wearied by the prospect of the two months of travel and logistics that lay between me and the next place I would 'hang my hat.'

When the Fish Shoot Back: Pink City Reflections on India 14th General Elections (Part I).
Summer, 2004.
LANDOUR CANTONMENT, Uttaranchal, India-His tone blending nostalgia and inspired determination, the speaker exuded calm confidence.