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...only free to come down from the trees during the daytime, when the elephant attacks cease. Officials say hundreds of other forest villages in the region are also regularly trampled by irate pachyderms. "When I visit [the villages], I feel like I'm visiting a war-torn place," says Shashi Bhushan, an activist for the People's Union for Civil Liberties. The elephants are agitated because the lack of food in their own natural habitats has forced them to stray into human villages; when the locals resist, the elephants get mad. Meanwhile, the Indian government seems capable of little more...
...easy to imagine a postconflict administration in Iraq under U.N. auspices--even if the U.N. had to work with an American military proconsul. Inevitably, the U.N.'s humanitarian agencies will establish an early presence in Iraq to ameliorate short-term hardship. But the U.S., says U.N. Under Secretary-General Shashi Tharoor, has not yet asked the U.N. to prepare for a role in longer-term reconstruction. Assuming the U.N. is indeed asked to help with that task--which is the private assumption of top officials at U.N. headquarters in New York City--there is the question of who will...
...Shashi Tharoor--the UN's director of communication and special projects, and a senior aide to Secretary-General Kofi Annan--was scheduled to speak on "The United Nations in the New Millennium," but instead, as he freely admitted to his audience, he chose to focus on the current state of the organization...
...launched. The UN has not irretrievably failed as many claim; it cannot as long as we continue to acknowledge its necessity and work towards its improvement. The celebration today is a recognition of the enduring importance and achievements of the United Nations. As Indian diplomat and noted author Shashi Tharoor once wrote, "Let's take care of the UN, it's the only...
...from Pakistan, India, Bangladesh. I want to set up forums and debates and try to defuse these awful things which are happening in India at the moment after the Ayodhya issue. It has to be bridged because we are harming nobody but ourselves. I have already asked Anita and Shashi Tharoor and from Pakistan, Sara Suleri. They have agreed, so we will start these sessions soon. They will be held in Houston because that's where I want to place myself for the next three years...