India

In the 1892 short story “Kabuliwala” (the man from Kabul) by Indian Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore, a dry fruit vendor from the capital of Afghanistan develops a tender friendship with a little girl in Calcutta. The vendor is then…

This thought has been brewing in the corridors of power at Raisina Hill these days. Diplomats whisper about it, while at least one prominent not-for-profit India Foundation, which counts two sitting cabinet ministers as mentors, has started…

Even more than for the recent terrorist attack on an air force base in northern India, these days the government in Delhi worries about the around 150 Indian nationals whom intelligence agencies are tracking for links with the Syria - and…

I paesi BRIC (Brasile, Russia, India, Cina) e MINT (Messico, Indonesia, Nigeria, Turchia) hanno in comune tra loro un grosso potenziale di crescita economica. E’ una potenzialità determinata anche dalla notevole dimensione delle rispettive…

There is a famous (and infamous) word in India: jugaad. In Hindi, it roughly means “to make do”. While this jugaad attitude has been celebrated as the Indian spirit of “frugal engineering”, it also exemplifies the poor quality of goods made…