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...expressed optimism about President Bush’s expected visit to India this fall. When a student asked if Indian government officials would be discussing any specific problems with Bush, Sen responded that India’s representatives would not have an agenda going into the meeting...
Ambassador Ronen Sen devoted a 20-minute speech to the relationship between India and the United States and then spent over an hour fielding questions on topics ranging from the caste system to the “brain drain” that occurs when Indian academics stay in the U.S. after completing their studies...
...been minimized to a great extent if governments had been quicker to realize what was coming and had issued warnings. We have to get past the political boundaries that we have built. Nature will always teach us that. Savi Mull Lucknow, India Setting up tsunami-detection buoys in the Indian Ocean is the right idea. But such a warning system cannot guarantee safety unless it is supported by roads that link coastal resorts to large centers that could house evacuees and by emergency public transportation that could be mobilized when an alert is sounded. There must also be a change...
...million people, more than $145 million was collected in private donations for victims of the tsunami disaster [Jan. 17]. That is in addition to the $300 million in assistance given by the government. I was glad to learn of proposals to install an early-warning system in the Indian Ocean that would alert people before a possible tsunami. In the aftermath of this disaster, philanthropists are demanding a better deal for the world's poor. There is more than enough money in the world to make sure no child goes to bed hungry. We have the resources to do that...
...While the situation appears grim, there is still hope. First, there is no foreign country backing the insurgents. New Delhi, for example, is worried that the insurgency will embolden Indian revolutionaries in the states of Bihar, Madhya Pradesh and Andhra Pradesh. Similarly, whenever the insurgents in Nepal are referred to as Maoists, Beijing is offended. Second, the international community is willing to help. In the latter half of the 1990s, because of human-rights violations by Nepal, the U.S. and Europe were reluctant to provide assistance. Today, the Maoists are on Washington's list of designated terrorist groups, and both...