by Kris Kong | Feb 6, 2014 | About Kishore Mahbubani
NEW DELHI: It is in India’s interest to ruthlessly junk remnants of its Cold War era “moralistic” foreign policy and impenitently take fullest advantage of a sharpening US-China rivalry to extract benefits from both camps, noted policy guru Kishore Mahbubani has said....
by Kris Kong | Feb 5, 2014 | About Kishore Mahbubani
NEW DELHI: India is heading for a “geo-political sweet spot” and even the Devyani Kobragade episode reflects India’s rising clout as not too long ago, the US would have brushed aside entreaties to let the Indian diplomat return home. Delivering the...
by Kris Kong | Jan 15, 2014 | About Kishore Mahbubani
PANAJI: The 7th D D Kosambi Festival of Ideas will be held from February 4 to February 8 at Kala Academy, featuring noted personalities from various fields including co-founder of Infosys N R Narayana Murthy and astrophysicist Jayant Narlikar. Others who will be...
by Kris Kong | Jan 15, 2014 | About Kishore Mahbubani
Could the word “Khobragade” soon become a part of the English language? “Khobragade (kho-braa-guh-dey): Noun. A person whose situation or predicament exposes the gulf in understanding between two cultures. Also, one who seeks relief from a charge...
by Kris Kong | Jan 1, 2014 | About Kishore Mahbubani
Until Christmas, Shinzo Abe’s eponymous Abenomics programme to rescue Japan from decades of deflation and low growth was an important success, according to most economic commentators. Among their ranks were the International Monetary Fund, investors on the Tokyo...
by Kris Kong | Dec 16, 2013 | About Kishore Mahbubani
Kishore Mahbubani, author of The Great Convergence: Asia, the West, and the Logic of One World, posed two questions to four U.S. politicians—two Republicans and two Democrats—who were part of a panel discussion that he chaired at the Davos World Economic Forum in...
