Shirin Ebadi

Born in 1947, Shirin Ebadi lives in Tehran where she trained in law, obtained a doctorate from Tehran University and served as a judge from March 1969 - the first woman ever to do so in Iran. Following the victory of the Islamic Revolution in ... [Read More]
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Glennyce S. Eckersley

Date: 2002-10-18Glennyce Eckersley works in Manchester with the Swedenborg Movement, a respected religious group founded in 1810. She has collected stories of angels and near-death experiences from all over the world and is well known for her ... [Read More]
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Scilla Elworthy

Scilla Elworthy has been awarded the Niwano Peace Prize from Japan, and been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize three times. She specialises in the effectiveness of conflict prevention and methods of resolution, and advises political and military ... [Read More]
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Arielle Essex

Arielle Essex is an American who has lived in Britain for many years. She gained a scholarship to Yale, then one to the Slade School of Art in London, working for a while as a commercial illustrator and political caricaturist. She now holds ... [Read More]
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Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Ph.D., is an award-winning poet, senior Jungian psychoanalyst, and a cantadora (keeper of the old stories of the Latina tradition). She has been in private practice for twenty-eight years and is former executive director of ... [Read More]
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Jules Evans

Jules Evans is Policy Director at the Centre for the History of the Emotions at Queen Mary, University of London, where he runs the Well-Being Project. He has worked with organisations including the new economics foundation, the RSA, the School of ... [Read More]
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Feature of the Month

Mark Tully India


India
by Mark Tully

Have India's economic changes over the last twenty had any impact on the poor20and marginalised? Can India’s democracy contain the mounting resentment of those left out of the new economic order? Can a high growth rate be sustained with India’s notoriously corrupt and inefficient governance? Can the development of its creaking infrastructure be speeded up? How is India going to feed itself unless agriculture is reformed?

This timely book will answer these questions through interviews with industrialists and cricketers, God men and farmers, plutocrats and former untouchables. Full of fascinating stories of real people at a time of great change, it will be of interest to economists, business people, diplomats, politicians, as well as to those who love to travel and who take an interest in the rapid growth of one of the world’s largest countries, and what this means to us in the West.


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