An often-told story is that, one-day, while Mahatma Gandhi stood at the back of a moving train his shoe was caught and fell to the ground. Immediately Gandhi removed his other shoe and threw it from the train. When asked why he responded, “So that the poor man who finds the shoe will have a [...]
Many Indians feel left out of high-powered politics and wonder how much will really change under the next government.
With results from the parliamentary election about to be tallied, Al Jazeera’s Barnaby Phillips meets two women in the northern Punjab state, living in the same country but under very different conditions.
China, Dubai, the US and Globalization from the man who may know it best
by Bruce Fenton (watch Globalization Video)
Like many things to do with global change, my conversation with legendary investor, adventurer and traveler Jim Rogers may be scary to most Americans. This fear is exactly the kind of thing Mr. Rogers sees [...]
It’s oil, not gold, that developing nations realize they need to power up their economies and grow with the rest of the 21st century world. India is a prime example. Unlike the days of the British Raj, when Indian princes and their British counterparts found fame and fortune as hunters of exotic game and precious [...]
by Bruce Fenton
“When people have hope, you have a middle class.” This quote from the cofounder of Yahoo, Jerry Yang, to a senior Chinese Government official was reported by Thomas Friedman in his book, The World is Flat. Well, look out world—there is a huge middle class movement taking place in the world’s second most [...]