An Indian American's quest to reclaim his identity

Arthur J Pais analyses How Stella Saved the Farm, a book that many organisations are talking about at the moment Written by Vijay Govindarajan and Chris Trimble, How Stella Saved the Farm is a parable about a farm in trouble and how it innovates to get out of trouble. The duo has also authored the New York Times bestselling Reverse Innovation: Create Far From Home, Win Everywhere. How Stella Saved the Farm reflects the classes that Govindarajan, a Dartmouth business professor, has been ...

We will always remember Roger Ebert at the movies, says Arthur J Pais, in his tribute to the prolific movie critic, who passed away on April 4.Roger Ebert, the prolific movie critic, author of half a dozen influential books on cinema and a brave fighter against cancer which had robbed him of his voice and finally, his life, on April 4 -- nearly 11 years after it was first detected -- had visited India only once, for less than two weeks.‘But I left a part of my heart there,’ he ...

In the third and concluding part of a series on Indian Americans who have won the Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships this year, Arthur J Pais profiles Vivek Viswanathan. The Harvard alumnus says he wants to use the opportunity to influence others contribute to society. Part 1: Harvard grad, activist, Soros Fellow: Meet Amar Bakshi Part II: An Indian American's quest to reclaim his identity Vivek Viswanathan's father came to the United States in June 1972, during the turmoil of the Watergate ...

Rice undergraduates, graduate students and recent graduates earned a number of fellowships, scholarships and awards this year. C.M. and Demaris Hudspeth Endowed Award for Student Life and Clubs Ian Bishop Schimmel Charles Duncan Award for ...

A 360-degree view of the man, his family and his pioneering work on education. Indian American economist Raj Chetty won the prestigious John Bates Clark Medal for 2013, often referred to as the 'Baby Nobel' because one in every three economists who won this award went on to win a Nobel. Notable among those who won the John Bates Clark Medal and later went on to win the Nobel include Milton Friedman, Joseph Stiglitz, Paul Krugman, Paul Samuelson and Chetty's mentor Martin Feldstein. Awarded ...

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A group of Indian Americans, appalled by Wharton India Economic Forum's withdrawal of invitation to Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, staged a demonstration near the Wharton School where the summit is underway. Arthur J Pais reports. After staging a "funeral" at a corner of a street near Wharton School of University of Pennsylvania and carrying a placard which read In Memory of Free Speech 1776-2013 Killed at Wharton, over 130 men and women, mostly in their 50s, marched for about 15 ...

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'Suddenly you become part of a very large humanity.' Bathing in the Ganga at the Maha Kumbh Mela left a lasting impression on Harvard investigators, finds Arthur J Pais. Tarun Khanna, the Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor at Harvard Business School, and director, South Asia Institute, Harvard University, was at the Maha Kumbh to study the business side of the Mela, but as a Hindu he would not think of returning to the campus without a dip in the Ganga. "I did not worry about pollution," he tells ...