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...
by Kris Kong | Nov 29, 2013 | About Kishore Mahbubani
South Asian countries have had the potential to do well for more than 40 years. But they have yet to deliver results in many areas. What has gone wrong? What needs to be done? And by whom? Setting a cat among the pigeons at a recent convention, Professor Kishore...
by Kris Kong | Nov 18, 2013 | About Kishore Mahbubani
Rising societal tensions in the Middle East and North Africa is ranked as No 1 among the 10 most globally significant trends for 2014 in the annual report released on Friday by the World Economic Forum (WEF), which placed the growth of Asia’s middle class as...
