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Category Archives: New York
Gupta’s Fall Street
Richard Lepkowski, the jury foreman at the Manhattan, New York court hearing the Rajat Gupta trial handed the US government its biggest success in its fight against insider trading when he read out the jury’s decision before noon of Friday, … Continue reading
Posted in Business, New York, Wall Street
Tagged Goldman Sachs, Lloyd Blankfein, Mckinsey &Co., Preet Bharara, Raj Rajaratnam, Rajat Gupta, Wall Street
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Rajat Gupta – Down to the wire
In 1970, a young student at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, played the role of Trishanku, an ancestor of Ram, who was barred from entering heaven in human form and left suspended between the earth and the sky. That … Continue reading
Posted in Business, New York, United States, Wall Street
Tagged Goldman Sachs, Insider Trading, Mckinsey &Co., Raj Rajaratnam, Rajat Gupta, Wall Street
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The bumpy road to Rio
The international community is stumbling in its efforts to find a middle path to a greener planet. Less than a year remains, when nations will converge in Rio de Janeiro to renew their vow towards sustainable development and a greener … Continue reading
Posted in climate change, New York, United Nations, World
Tagged Ban Ki-moon, Cancun, Commission for Sustainable Development (CSD 19). sustainable development, Developing Nations, Earth Summit of 1992, G77, Johannesburg Plan of Implementation (JPOI), Rio de Janeiro, Rio+20, UN World Summit on Sustainable Development, United Nations, United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
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A Nepali man’s extraordinary journey into a world of Surrealism and American legends
Indra B Tamang came from a Nepali village that had a witch doctor but no electricity. In his 20s, he met an American poet who changed his life. For the past four decades, Tamang has lived in the iconic Dakota … Continue reading
Posted in Artists, New York
Tagged Andy Warhol, Central Park, Charles Henri Ford, Indra Tamang, John Lennon, Nepal, Ruth Ford, Surrealism, Tennessee Williams, the Dakota building, Yoko Ono
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