Word: india
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Much of the money comes from three major grants. One is from an Indonesian bank; one is from the national university of Singapore and one is from a provincial government of India. All three are for academic work on public policy, and fall in the $1-2 million range...
...familiar number today that it may be hard to believe there was a time--hundreds of years, actually--when our species counted and spoke but had no concept of zero. Seife and Kaplan both trace the history of naught, from its inception in Babylon around 300 B.C. through Athens, India and Europe later in the Middle Ages. It took Western mathematicians so long to accept zero because of their reluctance to treat nothing as something. Zero was equated with the abyss, the void, the unknown--all psychologically unpleasant subjects. No one wants to be a zero...
...move over, America--and we can forget about Europe. The 21st century will belong to China and India. They have a billion tea-slurping people each, and there isn't a Starbucks in sight on Tiananmen Square...
TIME: In New Delhi you are held responsible for last summer's war with India. How do you hope to normalize relations with India...
...staff, so I take full responsibility for whatever my army does. However, Kargil has to be seen in the total perspective of Kashmir, and such far-reaching decisions are not taken by one man alone. Everyone was on board, including the Prime Minister. As far as my attitude toward India is concerned, I've been very realistic. I surely believe there has to be peace in the region and we have to resolve all our issues with India. But can we do anything without progress on Kashmir? No, we can't. It's just not realistic...