Posted in India, Travel, tagged India, Magical India, Sounds of India, Travel on March 5, 2017| Leave a Comment »
I’ve been to India 8 times in first 40+ years of life and 8 times in last 3 years now that I have a job that requires frequent travel to India. In all of those trips and now reinforced more than ever, it is the sound of India which is most embedded in my mind whether the 1980’s in Mumbai or 2016 in Hyderabad (picture from below – December 2016).
To me, India is: (more…)
Posted in Education, India, tagged Learning Labs India, School in the Cloud, Self Directed Learning, Sugata Mitra on March 16, 2014| Leave a Comment »
I’ve been fascinated by Sugata Mitra’s self-direct learning methods, which I wrote about here http://bit.ly/OuXgcd and here http://bit.ly/1ddR9Pu. Now, he’s opened his first learning lab in India. More below
Posted in India, tagged Indian Head Bobble, Indian Head Shake, Indian Head Wiggle, Shantaram and Indian Head Shake on March 1, 2014| Leave a Comment »
One of the most popular posts I’ve written for this blog was about my experience with the Indian Head Wiggle, (or Shake, or Bobble- many names for that most Indian of Indian gestures) inspired by an analysis of the wiggle in the fantastic book Shantaram. That post for many years was a cited reference in Wikipedia for the Indian Head Wiggle. I even was interviewed on Canadian radio for my so called expert perspective on the Indian Head Wiggle. Needless, to say, this gesture and topic has become important to me and something that I’ll pay attention to as I hear about in the media. (more…)
Posted in India, Internet, tagged Asian Indian Dayton Ohio, Dayton Ohio, If it's not on the Internet did it really happen, National Asian Indian Sammelan, National Asian Indian Sammelan 1993 Dayton Ohio on June 24, 2013| 1 Comment »
As we hit the summer of 2013, it dawned on me this is the 20th anniversary of a national conference I helped organize in the summer of 1993. The National Asian Indian Sammelan in Dayton, Ohio was a conference for young Asian Indian American adults, mostly age 18-34, exploring professional, personal, and life issues that this coming of age group was beginning to face. Generally, the audience of this conference was second generation Americans, whose parents had immigrated to the US in the 1960’s and 1970’s. This group was often the first set of young Asian Indian Americans who had been born and raised in the US, were recent high school or college graduates, and were beginning to face critical decisions such as career choice and marriage options. (more…)
Posted in Education, India, Technology, tagged Bill Gates and Salman Khan, Child Peer Teaching, Hole in the Wall, Khan Academy, Peer Teaching, Salman Khan, Sugata Mitra on May 30, 2011| 2 Comments »
One of the most celebrated new developments in education technology is the Khan Academy. Founded by Salman Khan, the Khan Academy offers instructional videos around a variety of topics but is most noted for its math related content. Key features include powerful dashboards and analytics which let instructors and users monitor performance and identify and reinforce needed focus areas. Khan’s site has about 2 million visitors a month and in total has offered around 54 million individual lessons. Khan is now drawing attention from many prominent people in the education, technology, non-profit, and social entrepreneurship sections. Bill Gates said about Salman Khan “I see Sal Khan as a pioneer in an overall movement to use technology to let more and more people learn things,” says Gates. “It’s the start of a revolution.” (more…)
Posted in India, Sports, tagged ESPN Wright Thompson, Franklin Foer, How Cricket Explains India, How Soccer Explains the World, Why you should care about cricket by Wright Thompson, Wright Thompson on April 24, 2011| Leave a Comment »
In 2004, Franklin Foer penned a book titled How Soccer Explains the World, An Unlikely Theory of Globalization. When I earlier wrote about my favorite books of the past decade, it earned honorable mention in the globalization category, so certainly a work I hold with high regard.
Foer spent six months traveling to the world’s soccer capitals trying to assess if the growing internationalization of the game could help explain the rapid globalization of the world’s economy and lifestyle. (more…)
Posted in Book Review, India, tagged Anand Giridharadas, Book Review India Calling, India Calling, India Calling An Intimate Portrait of a Nation's Remaking, Nipun Saxena on January 30, 2011| Leave a Comment »
India Calling, An Intimate Portrait of a Nation’s Remaking is a recently released book by Anand Giridharadas (a columnist for the International Herald Tribune and New York Times online) which has been receiving overwhelming positive reviews from various media outlets (NY Times Article review here, NPR Interview here, an appearance on the Daily Show, which you can see here). I haven’t read the book, but it’s now on the top of my to read list. (more…)
Posted in Book Review, Economics, India, Internet, Public Policy, Technology, tagged Foreign Policy Top 100 Global Thinkers, Reading List from Top 100 Global Thinkers, Recommended books by Top 100 Global Thinkers on December 31, 2010| 3 Comments »
In my previous post, I mentioned the recommended book list from Foreign Policy’s Top 100 Global Thinkers of 2010. Here’s a slide show version the book list on Foreign Policy’s site. For a quick glance at Top 20 books, here’s the full list in one spot with the book description offered by Foreign Policy magazine.
Posted in China, Economics, Globalization, India, Public Policy, Technology, tagged Analysis of Foreign Policy Magazine's Top 100 Global Thinkers, Foreign Policy Magazine, Foreign Policy Top 100 Global Thinkers of 2010, Raghuram Rajan, Warren Buffet and Bill Gates # 1 on Foreign Policy's Top 100 Global Thinkers List on December 30, 2010| 2 Comments »
Foreign Policy magazine just published their list of the Top 100 Global Thinkers of 2010 who most influenced the global marketplace. A very worthwhile article that I would recommend reading— you can read the report here.
The report provides an overview for each person and their achievements and thinking that led to their inclusion. Also, the results of a survey of intriguing global questions asked and responded to by the majority of the recipients is a must read. Additionally, a book list of the top 20 books recommended by the Top Thinkers is a great resource for all readers of the article (Fault Lines by Raghuram Rajan is the # 1 recommended book). (more…)
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